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🗞️ Story file #124

Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol files lawsuit

Oct 5, 9 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 5, 9 PM ETfirst on a front page: Yahoo News
  2. Oct 5, 9 PM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW
  3. Oct 6, 7 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 66 AM12 PM6 PM49leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 5, 9 PM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 5, 6 PMOct 66 AM12 PM6 PMChicago TribuneChicago TribuneChicago Tribune, Oct 5, 3:00 PM ET: Lawyers for Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol agent call for criminal chargesHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 5, 4:00 PM ET: Chicago Woman Shot By Border Patrol Announces Lawsuit Against GovernmentNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 5, 6:00 PM ET: Chicago woman shot 5 times by CBP officer files federal lawsuitWashington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Oct 5, 7:00 PM ET: Chicago woman shot five times by Border Patrol agent sues Trump administrationWashington Examiner, Oct 5, 8:00 PM ET: Chicago woman shot five times by Border Patrol agent sues Trump adminThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 5, 8:00 PM ET: Woman sues Trump administration after being shot five times by immigration agentYahoo NewsYahoo NewsYahoo News, Oct 5, 9:00 PM ET: DOJ dropped her charges after Border Patrol shot her 5 times. Now she's suing.The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 6, 11:00 AM ET: US citizen alleges immigration agent in Chicago shot her from behindIJRIndependent Journal ReviewIndependent Journal Review, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: Chicago Woman Sues U.S. Over Border Patrol ShootingABC NewsABC NewsABC News, Oct 6, 7:00 PM ET: Chicago woman shot 5 times by an immigration officer sues the US government📺 TVMSNOW, 9:23 PM ET: RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES CONTINUE PROTESTS AGAINST ICEMSNOW, 9:24 PM ET: RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES CONTINUE PROTESTS AGAINST ICEMSNOW, 9:24 PM ET: RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES CONTINUE PROTESTS AGAINST ICECNN, 12:12 AM ET: WOMAN SHOT BY CBP AGENT FILES CIVIL SUIT AGAINST U.S. GOVTCNN, 12:12 AM ET: Marimar Martinez | Shot by Border PatrolCNN, 12:12 AM ET: WOMAN SHOT BY CBP AGENT FILES CIVIL SUIT AGAINST U.S. GOVTCNN, 2:44 AM ET: CHICAGO WOMAN SHOT FIVE TIMES BY BORDER PATROL AGENT. SUES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TALKS TO CNN ABOUT LAWSUITCNN, 2:47 AM ET: CHICAGO WOMAN SHOT FIVE TIMES BY BORDER PATROL AGENT. SUES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TALKS TO CNN ABOUT LAWSUITCNN, 2:48 AM ET: CHICAGO WOMAN SHOT FIVE TIMES BY BORDER PATROL AGENT. SUES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TALKS TO CNN ABOUT LAWSUITCNN, 4:44 AM ET: CHICAGO WOMAN SHOT FIVE TIMES BY BORDER PATROL AGENT. SUES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TALKS TO CNN ABOUT LAWSUITCNN, 4:45 AM ET: CHICAGO WOMAN SHOT FIVE TIMES BY BORDER PATROL AGENT. SUES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TALKS TO CNN ABOUT LAWSUITCNN, 4:47 AM ET: CHICAGO WOMAN SHOT FIVE TIMES BY BORDER PATROL AGENT. SUES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TALKS TO CNN ABOUT LAWSUITCNN, 4:48 AM ET: CHICAGO WOMAN SHOT FIVE TIMES BY BORDER PATROL AGENT. SUES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TALKS TO CNN ABOUT LAWSUITCNN, 5:10 AM ET: Chicago woman shot. By Federal Agent SuesCNN, 5:22 AM ET: Border Patrol Agent Sues U.S. GovernmentCNN, 5:23 AM ET: Chicago Woman Shot Multiple Times By. Border Patrol Agent Sues US GovernmentCNN, 5:23 AM ET: Chicago Woman Shot Multiple Times By. Border Patrol Agent Sues US GovernmentMSNOW, 6:43 AM ET: FATHER & PASTOR FROM TX DEPORTED TO THIRLMSNOW, 6:43 AM ET: FATHER & PASTOR FROM TX DEPORTED TO THIRLMSNOW, 6:44 AM ET: FATHER & PASTOR FROM TX DEPORTED TO THIRLMSNOW, 6:45 AM ET: FATHER & PASTOR FROM TX DEPORTED TO THIRLMSNOW, 6:45 AM ET: FATHER & PASTOR FROM TX DEPORTED TO THIRLMSNOW, 6:46 AM ET: FATHER & PASTOR FROM TX DEPORTED TO THIRLMSNOW, 6:47 AM ET: FATHER & PASTOR FROM TX DEPORTED TO THIRLMSNOW, 6:48 AM ET: FATHER & PASTOR FROM TX DEPORTED TO THIRLMSNOW, 8:24 AM ET: FATHER & PASTOR FROM TX DEPORTED TO THIRLMSNOW, 8:25 AM ET: FATHER & PASTOR FROM TX DEPORTED TO THIRLMSNOW, 8:25 AM ET: FATHER & PASTOR FROM TX DEPORTED TO THIRLMSNOW, 8:26 AM ET: FATHER & PASTOR FROM TX DEPORTED TO THIRL
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Chicago woman shot five times by Border Patrol agent sues Trump administration” → “Chicago woman shot five times by Border Patrol agent sues Trump admin”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN8 min
MSNOW4 min
  • CHICAGO WOMAN SHOT FIVE TIMES BY BORDER PATROL AGENT. SUES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TALKS TO CNN ABOUT LAWSUIT CNN, 5 min
  • FATHER & PASTOR FROM TX DEPORTED TO THIRL MSNOW, 4 min
  • WOMAN SHOT BY CBP AGENT FILES CIVIL SUIT AGAINST U.S. GOVT CNN, 78 s
  • Marimar Martinez | Shot by Border Patrol CNN, 39 s
  • Chicago Woman Shot Multiple Times By. Border Patrol Agent Sues US Government CNN, 22 s
  • RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES CONTINUE PROTESTS AGAINST ICE MSNOW, 20 s
  • Border Patrol Agent Sues U.S. Government CNN, 11 s
  • Chicago woman shot. By Federal Agent Sues CNN, 8 s

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Chicago woman Border Patrol Trump administration U.S. government Federal lawsuit CBP officer

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.

Rebuilt every hour from the front pages of the outlets we follow.
Lean ratings: AllSides (CC BY-NC 4.0) · reliability: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Everything else (mood, spin, feelings, framing) is our own reading of the headlines.