Posted on 09/12/2006 9:35:32 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
A stray bullet from an upstairs room wounded a Buffalo man Sunday morning while he was using the toilet in the Buffalo Tourist Lodge, 1159 Main St., police said. Walter Her, 68, who had been living at the hotel for several months, was treated in the intensive care trauma unit of Erie County Medical Center for a wound to the lower left side of his back.
His condition was unavailable late Sunday, but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
"Two guys and a girl were upstairs partying, and they say they found a gun in the room when they checked in. One of the three fired the gun, which went through the floor, through the ceiling, through the bathroom wall and hit the guy," said Detective Sgt. Tom Donovan of the Central Police District.
The three were arrested, and police recovered a High Point .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol. Police said that the girl was 16 years old and that the two men had consensual sex with her.
"She was a willing participant in the [statutory] rape," said Donovan. "The two men said they met her Saturday night at a bar on Fillmore. . . . They said they didn't realize she was underage because they were carded to get into the bar."
Donovan said police do not believe their story about finding the gun in their room and believe one them brought the gun there and accidentally fired it.
John E. Kidd, 23, of Louisiana Street; Michael R. Morris II, 22, of Buffalo; and the 16-year-old girl, whose identity was withheld, were each charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of assault.
The two men also were charged with statutory rape and endangering the welfare of a child.
The shooting took place at about 4:30 a.m., but Her didn't realize he was wounded at the time, police said. He went to bed and, at about 7 a.m., discovered that he had been shot. He walked to the hotel's front office and was taken to ECMC.
Holey Crap!..........
What a sh*tty deal.
They shot me right in the can.
What a crappy thing to happen!
It took him 2 and a half hours to realize he'd been shot?
What a sh!##y break.
This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Shot in the dark".
Bet that helped get the mail moving....
Title is misleading.
The man was not in his toilet.
He was on it.
Guy's lucky. They might have been able to shoot him more than once with a real gun.
Scared the crap out of him.
He was feeling "flushed"..
Ah, what fine specimins of humanity!
It's all fun and games until someone gets shot on the can.
The story (now that I ve read it) sure takes some lewd twists and turns.
Has everything a hollywood movie is made of.
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