CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- The 78-year-old man U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot in a hunting accident was in stable condition Monday in a Corpus Christi, Texas, hospital.
Austin attorney Harry Whittington, 78, was hit in the cheek, neck and chest Saturday with pellets from Cheney's 28-gauge shotgun at a 50,000-acre ranch owned by Katharine Armstrong.
"Fortunately, the vice president has got a lot of medical people around him and so they were right there and probably more cautious than we would have been," Armstrong said. "The vice president has got an ambulance on call, so the ambulance came."
The accident was not reported by Cheney's office, but Armstrong contacted the media Sunday, and Cheney's office directed all inquiries back to her, The Washington Post said.
"The vice president visited Harry Whittington at the hospital and was pleased to see that he's doing fine and in good spirits," Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride told reporters.
