Wednesday, March 14, 2012

WHO'S A HERO?

Claim casts doubt on teenage rescuer's story

So who was the hero? A cryptic e-mail sent to reporters last week accused Brooke Garcia of trying to steal the credit for someone else's act of heroism.

A fight over the title of hero is rare, according to Idaho State Police spokesman Rick Ohnsman.

He also believes that not a word of the protest is true. He'd reviewed the e-mail's claims, that someone other than Garcia had saved a 3-year-old boy from a flaming car.

The state police investigated the crash, Ohnsman said, and found no reason to doubt previous accounts of the story. By now, it's an old one: An SUV swerved on Interstate 84. The driver overcorrected. The …

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