Welcome to Texas, where such things aren't unheard of.frankie_the_yankee wrote:Shot himself three times in the head? I hadn't heard of anyone doing that since Abu Nidal committed "suicide" in Baghdad a few years back.Skiprr wrote:An update on CNN today (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/10/wiscon ... index.html) indicates that Peterson was not killed by sniper fire as originally reported. "... [Peterson] apparently died after shooting himself three times in the head with a .40-caliber pistol, the state attorney general said."
I'm rather glad it wasn't easy for him but, moreover, this is another example of the myth of the handgun one-shot stop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Sol_Estes