An 8-year-old girl called to report gunfire before dawn, and deputies arrived to find 63-year-old Anthony Alvarez dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department said in a statement.
News organizations checked the story and found footage of the trip showing the then-first lady and her daughter, then 16, walking calmly from a helicopter and spending several minutes chatting to a group on the tarmac including an 8-year-old girl.