He Told A Heroic Story Of Saving Kids During A School Shooting. It Turns Out He Wasn’t There.

In May 2018, as a shooter rampaged Santa Fe High School in Texas, David Briscoe, a substitute English teacher at the school, took heroic actions to save his students. He barricaded the door to his classroom with desks and anything else he could find. He turned out the lights and told his students to “get down.” As he and his students remained silent, they heard the screams of those who were being gunned down elsewhere.

A compelling and harrowing tale, to be sure. Except, none of it happened.