NJ.com reports Harris, a cowboy actor who was playing the role of frontier lawman Wyatt Earp, was shot in the forehead by a 17-year-old actor who loaded his .22-caliber handgun with live bullets instead of blanks during a dramatization at the theme park on July 7, 2006.Does that sentence seem light to you? A man was severely injured, yet the responsible person gets only probation and a measly $7,500 fine? What gives.
The shooter used bullets that had been left in a lockerroom by another cowboy actor who brought two boxes of ammunition to the park. One had blanks and one had live rounds, which he had fired at a shooting range earlier in the day.
Today, Conforti sentenced Stabile, on behalf of Western World Inc., to one year probation and ordered the company to pay a $7,500 fine for unlawful possession of a handgun without a carry permit. The company pleaded guilty to the third-degree charge in April.
This isn't the first time we've seen reports of shenanigans at Wild West Shows. What do you make of that?
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