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A popular Union County teacher described by family and friends as a devoted father, teacher and coach was fatally wounded in a shootout when he and his brother-in-law tried to rob members of a Mexican drug cartel. Reported by our news partner, ABC11. By ABC11
The U.S. Marshals Service charged a man Monday with the murders of two men — including a popular Union County teacher — three months ago during a shootout involving alleged members of Mexican drug cartel.
Gar-yon-ded-weh Stepney, 41, is being charged with first-degree murder for shooting both Barney Dale Harris, 40, and Alonso Beltran Lara, 18, on April 8 in Alamance County.
Marshals found Stepney in Greensboro, where he was arrested and transported to the Alamance County Detention Center, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Stepney hasn’t received bond, and he will be taken to a district court judge on July 20 for a bond hearing.
Harris was a Spanish teacher and head boys’ basketball and track coach at Union Academy Charter School in Monroe.
An ‘old Western shootout’
The incident happened around midnight on Wyatt Road in Green Level — a town 55 miles west of Raleigh and 115 miles east of Charlotte.
Police found Harris dead in the bedroom of a mobile home and Lara wounded. Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson called the mobile home a drug “stash house.” Lara died later at a local hospital, the Observer previously reported.
Harris had several gunshot wounds from what Johnson called an “old Western shootout” between two criminal enterprises.
Harris and his brother-in-law, Steven Alexander Stewart Jr. of Wadesboro, were allegedly part of one of the enterprises.
The two men were attempting to rob Lara, who Johnson described as a drug runner for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, for drugs and money.
Lara was forced outside, bound by his feet and shot twice in the head “execution style,” according to Johnson.
A bag containing 1.2 kilos of cocaine (about 2.6 pounds), about $7,000 in cash and five guns were found at the scene, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Stewart was arrested and charged with first-degree burglary in relation to the Wyatt Road incident on April 11 at 1 a.m., according to WBTV, the Observer’s news partner. On April 12, Stewart was charged with first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a felon.
Union Academy Charter School in Monroe, NC, posted tributes, like this one, to Barney Harris after the popular Spanish teacher and basketball coach died on April 8, 2021. The posts disappeared on April 14 after the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office said Harris died in a shootout with members of a Mexican drug cartel.
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Yes I remember this article.
ReplyDeleteHarris the school teacher, was not making enough money, had put a GPS, to rob a stash house, from the baby killer cartel aka cjng. Harris was wearing a bullet proof vest and still lost his life.
He must’ve been on drugs to make this kind of desperate move. The outcome was never going to be good. Even if the robbery was successful, someone would be looking for their stolen merchandise. Dicen que para pendejo no se estudia
ReplyDeleteBarney Harris beloved teacher, would hurt no one says family members.
ReplyDeleteThen what the hell was he doing at a safe house belonging to a Cartel.
🤣🤣🤣 funniest comment I’ve seen cuz it’s the truth. Goddam family/teachers don’t know what the hell this guy was doin after work 😂😂
DeleteTotally remember reading about this a few months back, thanks for the reminder. Fascinating shite. Here is more info/news that somebody may find interesting.-h
ReplyDeletehttps://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article250703849.html
Ms. Heather Herrera
DeleteSend it to BB Gmail account it's on the website.
Whatever good the coach brought about was overshadowed by the evil inside him. You reap what you sow. Wonder what segment of the school he was popular with? My guess are the druggies.
ReplyDeleteNo no ya all have it wrong those fingers killed our Barney for no reason at all, that gang from Mexico got him because of his color.
ReplyDeleteCjng killing Black people now.
ReplyDeleteNew aka Black Killer Cartel 🤣😂😂
El Mencho Lives Matter ! Soy Mencho Guey !
DeleteNot even the cartel likes these thugs
DeleteAl Sharpton going to Jalisco to loot and shout hands up dont shoot
DeleteLol a new nickname for Cjng aka
DeleteBlack Killer Cartel
Baby Killer Cartel
Mechanic Killer Cartel
Grampa Killer Cartel
NOW??? dude mexican gangs and even a few blacks work for cartels..........
DeleteMexican cartels in Greensboro, North Carolina?
ReplyDeleteMaybe Trump was right about bad hobbies coming to US.
On the spectrum Kathi
North Carolina been a hub since before you wore braces junior
DeleteMexican Cartels are in every small and major town city in the USA
Deletesilly Kathi
Harris was an idiot, he'd been watching too many action videos,
ReplyDeleteHolding his gun sideways!
DeleteHe watched Rambo one time too many, he wore a bullet proof vest and still gets killed.
DeleteHolding sideways lol.
DeleteNo sympathy for this scumbag,you make your bed you lay in it simple as that
ReplyDeleteGood riddance.
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ReplyDeleteFuck that coach glad he got smoked
Was it your drugs? Fuck cartels in the usa. The ppl that got the balls to rob them good for them. Why let this fucking assholes send all kinds of money to mexico better to rob them and spend the money here.
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DeleteWho makes the money owns the money, idiot !!
Any business man can send the money wherever they want doesn’t matter where they make it, if you don’t like that then don’t buy drugs!!
4:29
DeleteWho makes the money owns the money, idiot !!
Any business man can send the money wherever they want doesn’t matter where they make it, if you don’t like that then don’t buy drugs!!
4:29 are you stupid? This isn’t the 50s anymore a lot of the money you spend ends up overseas if not with foreign company, in some billionaires off share bank account(s). And it seems like you have more of a problem with the money being sent to Mexico than you do with the actual drugs. I think you just don’t like Mexicans and also probably complain about immigrants sending money to family back home. it’s none of your business and what others do with their money, nosey mf
DeleteIts illegal money you idiot it belongs to whomever got the balls to take it and the brain to keep it. Here in the border theres ppl that make a living robbing the cartels. 10 keys here 5 keys there lay low do it again. Shit the cartels are so compartmentalized that they rob themselves so if you get a chance why not. Plus fuck letting that money get to mexico to some child killing asshole piece of shit.
Delete11:08 That is so true, I hear gangs in Arizona, specialized only in robbing safehouses, where they know there is money and drugs for the taking.
DeleteThe fucking teacher lost the money and his damn life.
DeleteSorry not sorry for that shit. He got what he deserved.
1108 sounds nice until you inevitably run into them again. plus nowadays all the trashy people doing that get burned on social media 😆
DeleteEnterprise man it's just 2 broke Moyo's trying to get over
ReplyDeleteBlack Panther Cartel
ReplyDeleteLol Barney was from the Black panther Cartel.
DeleteHe dindo nuffin
ReplyDeleteNada Ting!
DeleteThe biased American Media try to paint Barney Dale Harris as an innocent victim of cartel violence . However he was shot dead for tyring to rob a cartel member
ReplyDeleteIt's America. Americans are always the victims. Everyone is to blame for their consumption except them.
DeleteAbsolutely correct.
DeleteHe dadit du nuffin.
DeleteTeacher by day thug by night . He earned his death
ReplyDeleteHe looks like he used crack
ReplyDeleteA Spanish teacher at that, you know he was a user and AFTER buying the drugs he used, he decided to rob them
NOT to bright trying to rob a CARTEL
Too bad the good ole teacher was taken back to Mexico for some cartel justice
ReplyDelete1:02 please re-read the article.
DeleteWhere in the hell does it say they took Harris to Mexico?
Gym teachers side hustle was a legitimate hustle lol.
ReplyDeleteself defense i would argue
ReplyDeleteTo be in the Drug business u have to be alert and ready to kill the competition.
ReplyDeleteTo be in the Drug business u have to be alert and ready to kill the competition. Sorry Mr. Harris,
ReplyDeleteWTF CJNG Cartel hiding out on our land? I thought they only stay in Mexico. Barney Harris vs. The Cartel and he lost, this guy with not a Latino name gets convicted of murdering him. That's odd.
ReplyDeleteHis family is lucky they didn’t get chopped up into little pieces…. Drug cartels don’t care if it’s in America as long as the boss orders it
ReplyDeleteCartels are all over US even out in the sticks with the Hicks it's called Supply and Demand and all the Mexican immigrants in Hick town USA like Georgia and North Carolina are there because nobody wants to work and businesses don't want to pay because blacks and whites just want to hang out and smoke crack and meth which the cartels are Happy to supply
ReplyDeleteI’m impressed that you type so well while your head is up your ass.
DeleteJajajajaja
DeleteWhy would he try and Rob CJNG not smart.
ReplyDeleteMencho please send Grupo Elite to eliminate the terrorist group BLO
ReplyDeleteElaborate
DeleteLol mencho is probably sucking the BLO leaders didks right now for them to let him into northern Sinaloa 😆 he know if he really wants to do damage to CDS he needs to do it form the inside
DeleteNo he was a member of the snitchaloas he was a teir 1 shadow negro trained by wizards working with the Harry Potter cartel .
ReplyDeleteThere we go, you have so much hatred you have to use the SNITCH card.
DeleteEl Mencho called this mayate and he said to him
ReplyDelete"Mira bien hijo de tu puta madre soy Mencho Guey"
No Spanish words, only English. You know what it's like, a relative, friend and easy money. It's not easy. Comes with blood and high risk. He got caught. Stupid for sure, but understandable for many of us who sought an easier way. CJNG, just over a kilo . not exactly a big stash house, but still susceptible to robbery and usage. Many prefer the second choice.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a corny Redbox midnight matinee starring Chris Rock as a good guy gone bad. A rogue gym teacher who wanted a better life cut short by his 2 brain cells inability to hold hands lol 😂🤣
ReplyDeleteIt's not Mexican, it's Mexican't!!! Don't steel from us!!!! 😂😭
Oh ok emoji nino.
DeleteSee what happens when you hold the gun sideways lol
DeleteFurther proof of cartel is here in the US, and not to fuck with them. That was a critically stupid move
ReplyDeleteDavid for David not a stupid move. Thanks to Barney Harris bravery, he has exposed that Cjng is in fact, in many places on the east side of USA, which will open the door, for law enforcement agencies to have specific units to deal with Cartels wanting to settle down on US soil. Once again not a stupid move. Let's thank beloved Barney Harris.
DeleteAllen Corbin student of B.H
Rest in peace.
All the cartels been here for decades
DeleteAlong with the Gringos.
DeleteI’m not sure what anyone can really say this idiot teacher got what he deserved these articles about this is good advertisement for CJNG. Try to steal their product or money and this is what happens. They handled their business.
ReplyDeleteBarney was a Spanish school teacher.
ReplyDeleteBarney was a Sports teacher.
Barney decided to rob CJNG.
Barney lost at the end.
He likely did not know that that stash belonged to CJNG at all
ReplyDeleteSomeone in the comments stated where's Al Sharpton on this matter. Thats a funny thing is he only gets involved when the Police kill a colored person, weather the Police were in the right or wrong. There's money to be made there. But a Cartel killing Harris Barney, hell no he won't get involved.
ReplyDeleteBarney wanted to drive a pimped out, purple car, with tiny donut tires,playing Snoop Dog songs, while cruising the boulevard. His only way to get money was to rob a safehouse, he put a GPS tracker on Cartel car him and his buddy lost, but did not mention if his buddy got killed too.
ReplyDeleteI am the greatest.
ReplyDeleteCorey Fart man😂
I'm a Black American who knew a small bit about "the business." I was somewhat wary of my own people in this business, because I know us. I much preferred dealing with Mexicans. Superior product, consistent quality. Plus (no small thing), I felt safer dealing with them.
ReplyDeleteThese are my personal experiences only and are not meant as an indictment of my culture.
If a white guy wrote this, he would be “raaaaycisss”. Also, not sure how this is not an indictment of your “culture”. Nonetheless, you (for once) have some honesty in your post and, let’s be clear, no one else wants to deal with those MFs either. I personally would feel safer among a pack of wolves.
DeleteJames Brown I regret to say, but Barney Harris, was already excelling in life, but somehow or another he became greedy and wanted more money and look what happens. He did by exposing that CJNG is practically in our backyard, which will put more resources at reducing Cartels making home.
DeleteI want to see a video with CJNG decapitating these Mayates
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ReplyDeletea group of cash broke dudes with neither a plug nor intention to middle for one, can most certainly become on par with a pack of wolves should someone come looking for product with money in hand to spend...
my guess is mr lara was a local independent, mr harris probably a part time base head who couldnt coach the money for that ball he got fronted the week prior....well you see the result...
if it wasnt tragic enough here comes the state to pick up the scraps with charges in hand ready to put the survivor in a cage for life...
taking no sides here, its savage all around.
you dont do drugs? i dont do drugs? then we ought to legalize drugs all the better, less harm, less non sense....but to get there people gotta pull they heads out they nalgas first to gain a sense held common...ahem common sense
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excuse me, ive thrown my 2cents in the cup, i expect to see yours in that cup as well if its worth a dayum...
Survivors participated, and someone dies, yes they deserve jail time.
ReplyDeleteShould not be robbing safehouses.
10:41
ReplyDeleteforgive me i misread the àrticle and thought police had arrested and charged the individual getting robbed with murder.
mr lara was only 18 years old apparently, i say only not to imply that isnt commonly very much an adult especially in that world. someone probably assumed they could easily run a play something savage over on younger man on the account of his age and perceived inexperience and no doubt misplaced trust, sorry coach, karma saw your haste for greed and decided to blow the whistle, for dem shenanigans attempted be the deed of the most foul.
We will miss Barney Harris the beloved teacher. That wanted more in life.
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