Posted on 05/19/2004 7:42:45 AM PDT by sauropod
Shooting victim stable, expected to recover
May 8, 2004
By Times staff writer (unidentified)
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The 22-year-old who was accidentally shot in the chest during a training exercise at the law enforcement firing range/training area near the central landfill in Lecanto on Thursday is expected to recover, authorities said.
Eric C. Verhille was flown by helicopter to Tampa General Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition and underwent surgery Thursday.
Verhille, a Marine from Maine who is stationed in North Carolina, was in Citrus County doing freelance work as an instructor for a North Carolina-based private training company. The company had been contracted by Withlacoochee Technical Institute, which runs the range off State Road 44. http://www.wtionline.cc/
A dozen Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers in the Special Operations Group had been training at the range Thursday.
Verhille had been photographing a training session involving live ammunition when the incident occurred.
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/05/08/Citrus/Shooting_victim_stabl.shtml
Another article, same topic:
Marine recovering from gunshot wound at training exercise
May 7, 2004
The Associated Press
http://cbs4.com/floridanews/
Lecanto, Florida - A 22-year-old Marine was recovering Friday from a gunshot wound suffered during a training exercise at a law enforcement firing range. Eric C. Verhille of North Carolina was taken to Tampa General Hospital following Thursday's incident, but hospital officials Friday said they could not confirm he was being treated there, citing federal medical privacy guidelines.
Citrus County Sheriff's officials were investigating the incident as an accident.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Gail Tierney said a dozen officers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Special Operations Group were training on Thursday at the range, which the Withlacoochee Technical Institute operates.
She said the officers were participating in a "building clearance'' exercise. In an open-air "house,'' a group of four officers with long guns and handguns entered and cleared the first room, then entered a second room. Weapons were drawn and a shot was fired.
The Marine, whose rank was unavailable, was working as an instructor. He was standing on a stack of tires between the two rooms, photographing the session for training purposes, Tierney said.
"We're not really sure at this point if it was a direct hit or a ricochet,'' she said. Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigators were also investigating.
The Fish and Wildlife officer who is believed to have fired the shot was put on administrative leave. A sheriff's spokeswoman said Friday that officer is not being publicly identified until investigators determine he actually fired the shot.
Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press.
http://cbs4.com/floridanews/FL--MarineShot-dn/resources_news_html
Funny you mention...
I was reading this old thread tonight, and I was thinking in the same vein.
Reading that old thread, I noticed how both the US and Soviet governments became infested with a criminal class right around the same point in time as the Russian crime syndicate suddenly exploded in NYC.
Right around the time the Berlin wall fell.
We are completely rotten at the top.
>> After watching that eye opener it explains why LE has turned into a para military outfit, scary if one thinks about it.<<
You are NOT supposed to think about it!
Read this old thread and get worried.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b0c30a81760.htm
Welcome to the USSA.
From a quick google search:
"In 1961, a high ranking Soviet defector, Anatoli Golitsyn alerted the CIA to a 40 year plan to lull the west into complacency and lure the USA to a military defeat. Golitsyn warned that: 1. the USSR would fake it's own collapse, 2. we might witness the fall of the Berlin wall, 3. there would be a fake split between China and the USSR, 4. the Warsaw pact would be disolved"
I'm in the process of reading Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago", and there are many ominous similarities between the mindset of many in this country and those in the old Soviet Union.
He states how few people resisted when they jackboots came to haul them off to the camps. There is a lesson there.
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