Cheney Shooting Victim Suffers "Heart Attack" After Pellet Becomes Lodged In His Heart...
The 78-year-old lawyer who was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident has some birdshot lodged in his heart and he had a "minor heart attack," a hospital official said Tuesday.
Peter Banko, the hospital administrator at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial, said Harry Whittington had the heart attack early Tuesday while being evaluated.


Associated Press | February 14, 2006 01:07 PM