The daughter of the man Cheney shot said her father didn't know if he was being taken to the morgue or the hospital after the shooting, ABC News reported today. (Article excerpted to highlight quote -- full ABC News article here.
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After difficulty getting information from Cheney's staff, ABC News learned from sources mostly outside the White House that the vice president's Secret Service contingent had notified the local sheriff an hour after the vice president accidentally shot prominent Texas lawyer Harry Whittington with a shotgun loaded with birdshot while hunting for quail.
Whittington was in stable condition at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial. His daughter said after he was shot, the 78-year-old Republican supporter was unsure whether he was being taken to the hospital or the morgue.
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Later that evening, White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove was informed, and he briefed the president. Early Sunday morning — 14 hours after the shooting — local law enforcement interviewed Cheney, and Armstrong called her local paper with the story. At 3 p.m., nearly 21 hours after the accident, the vice president's office confirmed the shooting to a reporter for The Associated Press who had called the White House.
McClellan insisted that the White House and the vice president's office were not trying to hide information, and that they thought it was proper to have Katharine Armstrong, the owner of the ranch where Cheney was hunting, alert the press about the incident.
The daughter of the man Cheney shot said her father didn't know if he was being taken to the morgue or the hospital after the shooting, ABC News reported today. (Article excerpted to highlight quote -- full ABC News