[SML] Tombstone actor shot when live rounds fired during mock gunfight

[Dylan Smith]

So much obviously went wrong here:
http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/101815_tombstone/update-tombstone
-actor-shot-when-live-rounds-fired-during-gunfight/

Update: Tombstone actor shot when live rounds fired during gunfight

A member of a group of Old West re-enactors was wounded Sunday afternoon
when another actor fired a bullet from a pistol that held live rounds. Ken
Curtis of the Tombstone Vigilantes was shot, a woman was struck by another
bullet, and other bullet fragments hit nearby buildings, authorities said.

Curtis and a woman identified as Debbie Mitchell were shot when another
actor, Tom Carter, fired his revolver during a street skit involving a
gunfight in the 400 block of Allen Street in Tombstone, said Bob Randall,
the city marshal.

Randall is treating the incident as an aggravated assault "based on the
recklessness and serious injury involved." No arrests have been made and a
report will be forwarded to the Cochise County Attorney's Office for review,
he said.

Curtis was listed in good condition on Monday morning after undergoing
surgery, a Banner-University Medical Center spokeswoman said. The bullet was
removed and he "will be released to his wife so he can recuperate at home,"
Randall said Monday morning.

"Curtis fell to the ground after being struck by a live round" around 1:45
p.m., Randall said in a news release Sunday.

"The Vigilantes immediately stopped the show and Tom (Carter) was relieved
of his weapon. During inspection of his weapon, it was discovered that there
was one live round in the cylinder with five expended casings indicating the
gun had held six live rounds prior to the skit," Randall said.

"At least two of the live rounds struck businesses located at the East end
of Allen Street, approximately 680 feet from the skit, with one bullet
striking a woman standing in front of the Bird Cage Theater," he said.

Other bullet fragments struck nearby buildings, he said.





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