Someone had to do it. This is the path of the Sun in Armstrong Texas on February 11, 2006 until sunset at about 6:15 PM. The red hued Sun at 5:30 PM is where it was at the time of the shooting. If he were looking East, the setting Sun would have been in his eyes. Anywhere else, the light would be failing. Bad shooting conditions, sure enough.
A shooting expert on the news reminded me of the rule in quail or pheasant hunting: Never shoot until you see "sky" under the bird.
Source: data from the U.S.Naval Observatory.
Model: POV-Ray
Yikes: Apparently Harry Whittington has developed a cardiac arrhythmia [atrial fibrillation]. They did a cardiac catheterization and are reporting he has a pellet in his heart resulting in a heart attack [suggesting the pellet is in one of his coronary arteries]. The only way that could happen would be for it to have come from his lung. The story doesn’t make complete medical sense yet. Stay tuned…
Thanks for the tip, Dawn
Update: Coronaries clean. They’re using the term ‘heart attack’ loosely. A pellet entered the heart causing irritation of the muscle which manifested as the arrhythmia. Atrial Fibrillation in a 78 year old man is not too uncommon…
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