As news of Charlie Kirk being shot at Utah college broke, a Canadian man found himself at the centre of the storm after his photo began circulating online as the suspect who shot the Conservative commentator, The New York Times reports.

Michael Mallinson was informed of the misidentification by a false American social media account during a call by his daughter on Wednesday. The 77-year-old retired banker lives and was in Toronto at the time of the incident. But the posts circulating online claimed he was registered Democrat from Utah and falsely identified him as the person who shot the 31-year-old Trump ally.

“I’m just shocked by it,” he told NYT. “How quickly it can happen, how one’s name and photo can get spread around quite quickly.”

The confusion, in part, could have been becaus

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