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One Hell of a Shot

Victoria Reid, 60, was arrested in Brevard County, Fla., and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon/domestic violence, and aggravated assault/domestic violence. Reid accused her husband of having an affair, and forced him to sit on the couch at gunpoint while she threatened to “maim him and give him post-traumatic stress disorder.” She told him she would either shoot him in the face or the chest, but actually shot him in the knee, police said — “but the bullet traveled up his thigh and lodged in his testicles,” according to sheriff’s deputies. The report concludes that “The man’s condition is not known.” (RC/Florida Today) ...Pretty much, you can be assured of PTSD.
Original Publication Date: 01 May 2016
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 22.

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