United States
Woman Hit by Stray .50 Calibre Sniper Rifle Bullet at Texas Speedway
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas)
4 Nov 2008
FORT WORTH -- Kerry "Jill" King had just finished breakfast Sunday when, she said, what felt like a bolt of lightning ripped through her recreational vehicle at Texas Motor Speedway. "The explosion was so loud," she said Monday. Dazed, the 62-year-old Arlington woman's first reaction was to check the stove's butane tank. As she turned, she realized that her right arm was dangling and useless. "I starting screaming for my husband, 'Help me! I don't know what's happened!' " she recalled. A large-caliber bullet had pierced the roof of the RV at about 10:30 a.m. and hit her arm. The bullet shattered the bone in four places as it passed... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Woman Hit by Stray .50 Calibre Sniper Bullet at Texas NASCAR Race
Associated Press
4 Nov 2008
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A NASCAR fan in her recreational vehicle at Texas Motor Speedway was wounded by a stray bullet after someone apparently fired a gun into the air, police said. A bullet suddenly pierced through the motor home's roof Sunday morning before the Dickies 500 race, hitting a woman in the right arm, relatives said. "She immediately (screamed), 'I've been shot. I've been shot.' She took off running out the door," her son-in-law Bobby Cook told Dallas-Fort Worth television station KTVT. The 62-year-old woman, whose name was not released by authorities, was taken to a nearby hospital with a "significant wound" and was listed in stable... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Texas Man Fears His .50cal Bullet Might Have Hit Woman 8kms Away
Dallas Morning News (Texas)
4 Nov 2008
Fort Worth police are investigating reports from a 49-year-old Benbrook man who says he may be responsible for the stray bullet that hit an Arlington woman Sunday morning at Texas Motor Speedway. Kennith Jaramillo contacted Fort Worth police on Monday after hearing that Jill King Moss, 62, was hit in her arm by a .50-caliber bullet that pierced the roof of her RV, authorities said. Ms. Moss was taken to Harris Methodist Hospital and is expected to recover from her injuries. Given the bullet's trajectory, Fort Worth police investigators believe the bullet came from a long distance away. Mr. Jaramillo told police he was target shooting five miles... ( gunpolicy.org )
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