Harry Whittington, the Texas Attorney Shot by Dick Cheney, Dies at 95

Harry Whittington, a Texas attorney and well-known state GOP power broker, was Shot in the eye nearly two decades back Dick Cheney, the former Vice President, has died. He was 95.

Whittington’s wife, Mercedes Baker, According to the New York Times, Monday After a brief illness, her husband passed away peacefully at their home on Saturday.

Whittington is a long-standing Austin-based lawyer who was shot in the head and body by Cheney while hunting quail on a sprawling South Texas ranch.

Whittington, now 78, was left with numerous small birdshot pellets, and lost consciousness. His blood vessels were injured and he suffered a minor cardiac attack.

A week later, the victim was still suffering from severe facial discoloration and visible birdshot pockmarks when he emerged from the hospital. The world was stunned when he made a public apology Cheney

“We all assume certain risks with whatever we do … Accidents do and will happen,” Whittington. “My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney and his family have had to go through this past week.”

“We send our love and respect to them, as they deal with situations that are much more serious than what we’ve had to deal with this week,” He added.

“We hope that he will continue to come to Texas and seek the relaxation that he deserves.”

Cheney’s aides initially tried to blame Whittington for getting in the way while going to retrieve a shot quail, but in a subsequent interview on Fox News, the vice president took responsibility for what happened, saying, “I pulled the trigger.”

It was one of the many late-night jokes Cheney made about Cheney that triggered the 2018 film. “Vice,” directed by Adam McKay and starring Christian Bale in heavy prosthetics as President George W. Bush’s all-powerful VP.

Around the time of the film’s release, Whittington, then age 91, sat down for an Interview with Corpus Christi Caller We will be discussing his experience with death.

He claimed that the last thing that he remembered was the scent of gun powder in his air.

Whittington claimed that he and Cheney kept in touch after the shooting. They even went to dinner together earlier in the year. But he described them as “two people.” “just acquaintances.”

Whittington told the paper that some pellets were still in his body. He also said that he had given-up hunting due to his advanced years.

In his memoir titled “In My Time” Cheney published the book in 2011. “deeply sorry” Whittington’s family was hurt.

“The day of the hunting accident was one of the saddest of my life,” The former vice president stated.

Cheney, 82, has not publicly commented on Whittington’s passing as of Monday.

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