A retired banker has revealed his horror at being wrongly identified online as Charlie Kirk’s assassin — even though he was actually home around 2,000 miles away in Canada.

Michael Mallinson, 77, told the New York Times that he got a frantic phone call from his daughter on Wednesday alerting him to thousands of social media posts identifying him as the sniper who murdered the conservative influencer as he spoke at Utah Valley University.

The bogus news appears to have started on a bogus news site, which likened Mallinson to a man seen being detained at the scene — someone who was himself soon ruled out as being a suspect.

“I’m just shocked by it,” Mallinson said from his home in Toronto. 3

“How quickly it can happen, how one’s name and photo can get spread around quite quickly.

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