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They are still trying to find out how, who fired, etc. The link will expire soon so this is what is there:
ISLE OF WIGHT - A Civil War re-enactor who was injured during a documentary film shoot over the weekend was struck in the shoulder by a shot apparently fired from the pistol of another re-enactor.
Isle of Wight County sheriff C.W. Phelps said the projectile that doctors removed from the shoulder of Thomas Lord Sr. was identified as a .45-caliber musket ball, ruling out the possibility that the wound was the result of an errant shot fired by a hunter from the nearby woods.
The incident happened on Saturday in Heritage Park, where a film crew from Virginia Beach was shooting documentary footage to recreate a Civil War battle. The filmmakers were using Civil War re-enactors and other local residents to portray the Union and Confederate soldiers.
Phelps said Lord, a 72-year-old Suffolk resident, was portraying a Union soldier and was standing on the sidelines while the filmmakers shot footage of the Confederate soldiers charging and firing their weapons. Actors and re-enactors do not use live ammunition in such scenes, but at least one of the pistols fired a live round that struck Lord in the right shoulder.
He was airlifted to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, where he was treated and released.
"There were at least three people with pistols in the scene at the time Mr. Lord was hit by the projectile," Phelps said. "There was a volley of shots being fired from 25-30 feet away from where he was standing, and obviously someone had a slug in his weapon."
Phelps said the filmmakers are cooperating and that investigators will be reviewing the footage of the scene in which the shot was fired.
"We're continuing the investigation to see if we can determine who fired the pistol," Phelps said. "We're still assuming that the shooting was accidental, but we can't know anything for sure until we determine who was involved in the shooting."
They are still trying to find out how, who fired, etc. The link will expire soon so this is what is there:
ISLE OF WIGHT - A Civil War re-enactor who was injured during a documentary film shoot over the weekend was struck in the shoulder by a shot apparently fired from the pistol of another re-enactor.
Isle of Wight County sheriff C.W. Phelps said the projectile that doctors removed from the shoulder of Thomas Lord Sr. was identified as a .45-caliber musket ball, ruling out the possibility that the wound was the result of an errant shot fired by a hunter from the nearby woods.
The incident happened on Saturday in Heritage Park, where a film crew from Virginia Beach was shooting documentary footage to recreate a Civil War battle. The filmmakers were using Civil War re-enactors and other local residents to portray the Union and Confederate soldiers.
Phelps said Lord, a 72-year-old Suffolk resident, was portraying a Union soldier and was standing on the sidelines while the filmmakers shot footage of the Confederate soldiers charging and firing their weapons. Actors and re-enactors do not use live ammunition in such scenes, but at least one of the pistols fired a live round that struck Lord in the right shoulder.
He was airlifted to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, where he was treated and released.
"There were at least three people with pistols in the scene at the time Mr. Lord was hit by the projectile," Phelps said. "There was a volley of shots being fired from 25-30 feet away from where he was standing, and obviously someone had a slug in his weapon."
Phelps said the filmmakers are cooperating and that investigators will be reviewing the footage of the scene in which the shot was fired.
"We're continuing the investigation to see if we can determine who fired the pistol," Phelps said. "We're still assuming that the shooting was accidental, but we can't know anything for sure until we determine who was involved in the shooting."
