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In Kissimmee, Florida, in May, William Nelson was shot twice point-blank by a man with a .38-caliber snub-nosed revolver. One shot went through his shoulder; the other hit him “square in the forehead and just stopped,” according to police officer Jim Lakey. Nelson’s only major problem was that his “ears were ringing.”
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission’s May report on sports injuries said 1,455 people were sent to emergency rooms in 1992 with injuries suffered while playing Ping-Pong.
Police in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, filed armed-robbery charges against John P. Wuchko, 28, in July. According to police, Wuchko left no fingerprints at the scene because he wore surgical gloves, but they recovered one of the gloves nearby and found Wuchko’s print on the inside of one of the fingers.
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Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
