
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, June 12, 1993                   TAG: 9306120210
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
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BEDFORD MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF AT VINTON POOL

An 18-year-old Bedford man was in critical condition Friday night after apparently shooting himself in the head while playing with a gun in front of some friends at a Vinton pool.

William Hagy had been twirling a gun under a picnic shelter at the Vinton Pool near the Vinton Jaycees park, Vinton Police Lt. William Brown said.

The magazine of the .25-caliber automatic had been taken out, but one round was left in the chamber.

Hagy apparently put the gun to his head, pulled the trigger, and it went off. At least five friends, all under the age of 18, witnessed the accident, Brown said. No charges had been filed, and police still were trying to determine if the gun belonged to Hagy.

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