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02-14-05, 12:12 AM
3 Indiana men charged in death of pal trying out 'bulletproof' vest
February 13, 2005
BY KAREN SNELLING Post-Tribune Staff Writer
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Daniel Wright was going to join the military, and he wanted some experience.
So the 20-year-old went to a field in Hobart, donned what he thought was a bulletproof vest and turned to his friends with instructions.
"Shoot me. I'm ready," Wright said.
Later, his friends concocted a story about a shooting on a Gary street, police said.
One day later, police had uncovered the lie, and detectives detailed a deadly game gone wrong.
"He voluntarily put on the vest because he wanted to experience what a .20-gauge shotgun would do," Hobart, Ind., police Lt. Leo Finnerty said Friday.
The experience left Wright mortally wounded at the hand of a friend, not, as his companions originally reported, murdered by a stranger outside a Gary liquor store.
Now, three Hobart men have been charged in connection with Wright's shooting death.
Finnerty said the trio made up the story after Wright, 20, of Crown Point, was fatally shot before dawn Thursday during a bizarre test of what he thought was a bulletproof vest. It turned out to be a flak jacket, which Finnerty said is not designed to stop a bullet. :eek:
February 13, 2005
BY KAREN SNELLING Post-Tribune Staff Writer
Advertisement
Daniel Wright was going to join the military, and he wanted some experience.
So the 20-year-old went to a field in Hobart, donned what he thought was a bulletproof vest and turned to his friends with instructions.
"Shoot me. I'm ready," Wright said.
Later, his friends concocted a story about a shooting on a Gary street, police said.
One day later, police had uncovered the lie, and detectives detailed a deadly game gone wrong.
"He voluntarily put on the vest because he wanted to experience what a .20-gauge shotgun would do," Hobart, Ind., police Lt. Leo Finnerty said Friday.
The experience left Wright mortally wounded at the hand of a friend, not, as his companions originally reported, murdered by a stranger outside a Gary liquor store.
Now, three Hobart men have been charged in connection with Wright's shooting death.
Finnerty said the trio made up the story after Wright, 20, of Crown Point, was fatally shot before dawn Thursday during a bizarre test of what he thought was a bulletproof vest. It turned out to be a flak jacket, which Finnerty said is not designed to stop a bullet. :eek: