The woman whose social media post helped ignite false claims of pets being eaten in Springfield, Ohio, said Friday the post ...

Springfield, Ohio, resident Erika Lee shared an unverified claim on Facebook about Haitian immigrants in her town. Then it ...

An Ohio woman whose Facebook post sparked harmful rumors about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield has admitted the claims are false.

“It just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,” Erika Lee, a Springfield resident of four years, told NBC News. Lee, a 35-year-old hardware store worker, said she had no actual ...

The woman behind an early Facebook post about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into ...

Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, recently authored a post on Facebook, saying that her neighbor’s cat was lost and she was told it was because the pet was attacked by a Haitian immigrant.

Erika Lee, the woman behind the viral Facebook post that stoked rumors about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, tried to walk back her comments. The original ...

The rumors — that Springfield and Clark County law enforcement officials have refuted — appear to have originated in a local Facebook group with a post from a woman named Erika Lee.

"It just exploded into something I didn't mean to happen," Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, told NBC News on Friday.

Springfield, Ohio, resident Erika Lee shared an unverified claim on Facebook about Haitian immigrants in her town. Then it became a national talking point Getty Two women from Springfield ...

Erika Lee, 35, admitted to NewsGuard that she heard ... Warning to all about our beloved pets and those around us!!' Lee wrote on Springfield Ohio Crime and Information Facebook group. ' ...