Texas Hunters Shoot Each Other, Then Try To Blame It On "Illegals"

[GondwanaLand]

There are no words.

A hunting guide and his client accidentally shot each other and then blamed it on undocumented migrants, police in the US have said.

Officers attended the scene at a remote south Texas ranch, near to the Mexico border, in early January, finding the two men bleeding from gunshot wounds. A second guide was involved in the incident, but escaped without injury.

The casualties, guide Walker Daughtery, 26, and client Edwin Roberts, 59, and the other guide, Michael Bryant, told police they suspected the shooters were undocumented immigrants they had seen on the ranch earlier in their trip.

Their story was shared thousands of times online after Texas Commissioner of Agriculture and Donald Trump ally Sid Miller wrote about it on Facebook.

But police and a grand jury have now concluded the men were lying about the incident, and actually shot each other.

Investigators believe that Mr Daughtery became paranoid that illegal immigrants were inside a vehicle with Mr Roberts and his wife and attempted to get inside without saying anything, prompting Mr Roberts to shoot at the door.

Mr Daughtery then ran back to his cabin to grab his gun and to get backup from Mr Bryant, and together they opened fire on the truck.

And this gem from the Texas politician/Commisioner of Ag/Trump Buddy that leapt onto the story:

Mr Miller, who became infamous in the US during last year’s election campaign when he called Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton a "c***" in a Tweet, deleted his initial Facebook post about the incident after police said they were suspicious of the hunters’ story.

Mr Miller’s initial post included two pictures of Mr Daugherty, one of which showed him in his hospital bed.

“The aliens were ambushing the RV that Walker and his wife. He was shot while trying to protect his hunters from the attack. Walker is a man of God and is now a hero,” Mr Miller wrote.

“This is why we need the wall and to secure our borders,” he added, in the post.

Texas hunters accidentally shot each other then blamed it on immigrants

 

[wing2000]

We apparently need a wall between these two hunters.

 

[faroukfarouk]

There are no words.




And this gem from the Texas politician/Commisioner of Ag/Trump Buddy that leapt onto the story:


Texas hunters accidentally shot each other then blamed it on immigrants

Didn't Vice President Cheney shoot one of his Texas friends in a similar incident?

(I seem to remember that the friend who was shot actually issued an apology for having been shot - work that one out... )

 

[Archie the Preacher]

The 'hunters' in Texas who decided to not stand up for their own actions are reprehensible. I say this as a firearms owner, user, student and advocate. (All we need is more ninnies pulling this sort of stunt.)

They've been found out, the law enforcement people know and they will answer for it.

The incident with the Vice President was a bit different. The group of bird hunters (armed with shotguns, not rifles or handguns) were walking a field, on line, which is fairly normal. Shotguns shoot a "charge" (usually an ounce or so, depending) of "shot" (round lead or more recently, non-lead metal formed into spheres usually about 2 to 3 millimeters in diameter) from a relatively large bore, non-rifled barrel. The shot fans out when fired. Pellets or shot do not travel very far from the point of discharge. Typically after fifty yards or so, the shot is falling under the influence of gravity. The 'fanning out' is due to air resistance, the vagaries of the irregularity of the shot and breezes. On occasion one pellet will veer considerably from the intended direction of fire.

That is what seems to have happened. One pellet only struck the wounded man, Harry Whittington. Mr. Whittington is a lawyer, friend of VP Cheney's and apparently a bird hunter as well. Mr. Whittington suffered minor 'wounds' - pellets breaking the skin - and a heart attack in a freakish result of ONE of the pellets interring a blood vessel and getting to his heart.

To gauge the culpability of the incident, one notes Mr. Whittington - an attorney - did not file a suit and remains friends with the Vice President. Despite the media outcry.

 

[USincognito]

I'm surprised they didn't claim the illegals were paid by George Soros.

 

[brinny]

Didn't Vice President Cheney shoot one of his Texas friends in a similar incident?

(I seem to remember that the friend who was shot actually issued an apology for having been shot - work that one out... )

Yes.