Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter

[Monroe, Dave]

Texas lawyer 'alert and doing fine' in Corpus Christi hospital

Sunday, February 12, 2006; Posted: 3:54 p.m. EST (20:54 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured
a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said
Sunday.

Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed
Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch in south
Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong.

Armstrong said Cheney turned to shoot a bird and accidentally hit
Whittington. She said Whittington was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial
Hospital by ambulance.

Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president was with
Whittington, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, and his wife at the hospital on
Sunday afternoon.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/12/cheney.ap/index.html 

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