CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Texas authorities have decided no criminal charges are warranted in Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting of a friend, a report says.
The Kennedy County Sheriff's Department in Corpus Christi closed its investigation with a report largely corroborating Cheney's account of the shooting, the Washington Post said Friday.
The report quotes Cheney and Whittington as saying the shooting was an accident. They said no one was drinking alcohol during the hunt, according to the report
The investigators also backed the account given by Katharine Armstrong, whose family owns the 50,000-acre ranch where the incident occurred. Cheney shot Harry Whittington, 78, a prominent Austin lawyer, while hunting quail last Saturday afternoon.
In his first public comments on the shooting, President George Bush said that he is satisfied with Cheney's account.
"I thought the vice president handled the issue just fine," he said. "I'm satisfied with the explanation he gave."
