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91-Year-Oregon Man Shoots Himself in a Gun Shop

Posted on the 10 August 2013 by Mikeb302000
Local news reports An employee at the Roseburg Gun Shop reported asingle shot was fired inside the store just after 8 a.m. Wednesday.
The employee told police that a customer, later identified as Charles Hanson, 91 of Roseburg, had come in and asked to look at a handgun. The clerk handed Hanson an unloaded firearm.
The employee turned away for a moment and reported hearing the gunshot. He ran from the building and called police.
Officers set up a perimeter around the Diamond Lake Boulevard business and evacuated employees from nearby stores.
Hanson came out of the store at around 8:17 a.m., covered in blood. Police detained him, and he was taken to the hospital for treatment.
Officials reported that Hanson died from his injury at the Riverbend Medical Center in Springfield late Thursday afternoon. The incident is under investigation, but police said Hanson appeared to have a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The story doesn't really add up, does it? What do you think^

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