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Hunter shot by Cheney has minor heart attack
Doctors: Birdshot moved to Harry Whittington's heart
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (CNN) -- The fellow hunter who was shot and wounded by Vice President Dick Cheney has suffered a minor heart attack after a piece of birdshot migrated to his heart, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday....
Harry Whittington, 78, is in stable condition in intensive care and will remain hospitalized for up to seven days, hospital officials said....
...Authorities have cleared Cheney of wrongdoing in the accidental shooting of Whittington, but questions about Saturday's incident remain....
..."This department is fully satisfied that this was no more than a hunting accident," the Kenedy County Sheriff's Department said in a statement issued Monday evening....
Sheriff's deputies in Kenedy County, near Corpus Christi, questioned Cheney on Sunday and Whittington on Monday....
Whittington, a prominent Texas lawyer and a campaign donor to the Bush-Cheney campaigns in 2000 and 2004, was hit on the right side of his face, neck and chest when Cheney, an avid hunter, turned and fired on a covey of quail at a ranch near Kingsville, Texas, on Saturday....
According to Katherine Armstrong, who accompanied the hunting party, Whittington shot a quail, dropped back from the rest of the group to retrieve it and was rejoining the group when Cheney fired.....
A Kenedy County sheriff's deputy questioned Cheney about the shooting on Sunday, Mazur said....
Careful, you don't want to confuse poor ole' lugnut with the facts. Pesky things those facts.....
I guess when Armstrong and Willeford say he was to the right, they don't know what they saw with their own eyes.
Yeppers, that's why they call them accidents and not on-purposes.