Cheney shoots fellow-hunter
2006-02-12 22:48
Washington - United States vice-president Dick Cheney has accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas.
Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed him 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 spokesperson, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice-president was with Whittington, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, and his wife at the hospital on Sunday afternoon.
- AP