Monday, July 31, 2006

This is why they don't allow guns in buffet lines.

WIS-TV: Blind man trying to handle gun, food fatally shoots wife

Burke County authorities say a legally blind man trying to carry a pistol and a plate of food at the same time shot and killed his wife.

The sheriff's office says Kelly Honeycutt of Morganton was holding a .38-caliber pistol he found in a box while he and his wife were moving into a new home Monday night Honeycutt accidentally shot his wife Norita in the head after she handed her wheelchair-bound husband a plate of chicken.

Investigators haven't filed charges, but the case was sent to the county prosecutor's office for a final determination.

A sheriff's office spokesman says Kelly Honeycutt was more than 50 percent blind, had limited movement and was in advanced stages of multiple sclerosis. His wife was his caretaker.

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