Friday, May 18, 2012

Accidental Shooting of Arkansas Man by Neighbor Shooting at Stray Cats

The Republic reports

A man in Logan County was left in critical condition after he was struck by a gunshot fired by a neighbor who was trying to shoot a stray cat. 

The Logan County Sheriff's Office says 29-year-old Terry Osburn was sitting on his porch in the Prairie View community on Tuesday when the gunshot struck him in the face. 

A 58-year-old neighbor was several hundred feet away and took aim at a stray cat with a .38-caliber handgun. The neighbor's name wasn't released but deputies say he was arrested for suspicion of second-degree battery. 

The sheriff's department says the men hadn't been arguing and that the shooting appears to have been accidental.
How does that "second-degree battery work? That should be easily bargained down to a slap on the wrist, don't you think?

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