Cheney shoots millionaire lawyer in hunt blunder

US vice president Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded an elderly companion during a weekend quail-hunting trip in Texas, spraying him in the face and chest with shotgun pellets.

Harry Whittington, a millionaire lawyer from Austin, was “alert and doing fine” in a Corpus Christi hospital last night, a day after he was shot by Cheney on a ranch in south Texas, said Katharine Armstrong, the property’s owner.