A horrific tragedy struck in Nashua, New Hampshire, Saturday night when a masked gunman stormed into a wedding reception at the Sky Meadow Country Club, opened fire, and killed a guest. Witnesses said the shooter shouted political slogans—including “Free Palestine” before pulling the trigger. Yet some of the nation’s leading outlets are conspicuously omitting that detail.
According to the New York Post:
“A crazed gunman shouted ‘Free Palestine’ before he opened fire on a Nashua, New Hampshire, wedding reception and killed one guest — just as the bride and groom were about to start their first dance, according to witnesses.”.
Police later identified the suspect as 23-year-old Hunter Nadeau, who has been charged with murder. The victim was 59-year-old Robert Steven DeCesare.
The Associated Press, via Fox News, confirmed the same account from an eyewitness:
“The shooter who killed a man and wounded two other adults during a wedding at a New Hampshire country club on Saturday yelled ‘Free Palestine’ as the chaos unfolded, a witness told The Associated Press.”
Tom Bartelson, the uncle of the groom, described the mayhem:
“Getting together for a dance for the bride and groom and then all chaos went off. We heard about six shots and everybody ducked for cover and next thing you know we’re rushed into safe spots and things like that.”
That initial reporting matches an eyewitness interview captured immediately after the attack. The witness recalled both the shooter’s words and the chaos that followed:
“He just came out and said, yeah, what he said was, the children are safe. And, you know, free, free Palestine. … At first, I didn’t realize it was gunshots. It sounded like balloons. Because, you know, we’re at a festivity, thinking there maybe somebody popped the balloon. But then you look around, we didn’t have balloons and then it got serious because it was two and then four right away. That’s what I heard anyway. People started running right away. They ducked and covered”.
Local police quickly confirmed the attack involved only one shooter:
“Video surveillance has confirmed there was only one shooter and they are currently being detained. The scene is still an active investigation but there is no further danger to the public.”
Despite eyewitnesses confirming the shooter shouted “Free Palestine,” NBC News never mentioned it. As National Review’s Charles C. W. Cooke noted, readers had to turn to The Guardian to learn the truth.
Not to be outdone, in CNN’s coverage, it takes 17 paragraphs to get to the “free Palestine” coverage:
Tom Bartelson, who was also at the wedding, told WHDH he heard the gunman yell “the children are safe” and “free Palestine.”
That’s not an oversight. It’s deliberate. When media outlets erase inconvenient facts, that isn’t journalism. It’s narrative management and propaganda at best.
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