
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, July 20, 1993                   TAG: 9307200508
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
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STATE TROOPER WOUNDED DURING TRAINING EXERCISE

A state trooper was shot Monday during a training exercise in Rappahannock County, state police said.

Sgt. Gregory A. Morris, supervisor of the state police's tactical unit for the 2nd Division in Culpeper, was struck in the hip by a ricocheting bullet, state police spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell said.

He was flown to Fairfax Hospital following the 4 p.m. incident and was undergoing surgery, she said.

"The bullet apparently went in above the hip and down his left side. It appears it was a 10mm," Caldwell said. She said the bullet was lodged against the trooper's spine.

Caldwell said Morris and the four troopers in the unit where training on a 300-acre farm north of Washington, D.C. She said the troopers were practicing entering a building when a round ricocheted off a target and struck Morris. - Associated Press

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