BOY, 15 SHOOTS HIS STEP BROTHER; Accident on rat hunt.A TEENAGE boy is fighting for his life after being shot in the head by his step-brother while they were out killing rats. Steven Doyle Edward Steven Doyle was President of the United States Chess Federation from 1984 to 1987, the youngest person ever to be elected to that position. He is a chess tournament organizer, who is best known for organizing the annual U.S. , 15, was rushed to hospital with a bullet lodged in his brain, and his condition is said to be critical. The tragedy happened on Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. when he and stepbrother step·broth·er n. A son of one's stepparent. stepbrother Noun a son of one's stepmother or stepfather Noun 1. Steven Wight were shooting rats in a barn only 400 yards from their country cottage in the village of Spott, near Dunbar, East Lothian East Lothian (lō`thēən), council area (1993 est. pop. 85,640), 262 sq mi (677 sq km), and former county, SE Scotland. Under the Local Government Act of 1973, the county of East Lothian became (1975) part of the new Lothian region, . It is thought teenager Wight, who is also 15, tripped and his gun accidentally went off. Injured Steven's step-dad Gus Wight is the gamekeeper at Brunt Estate, a small pheasant pheasant, common name for some members of a family (Phasianidae) of henlike birds related to the grouse and including the Old World partridge, the peacock, various domestic and jungle fowls, and the true pheasants (genus Phasianus). shooting property. Police are investigating the accident and are understood to have taken Wight's guns from him. John I'Anson, whose parents own the estate where the family live, said: "It was probably a small calibre rifle. If it had been a shotgun it would have been even worse." He said the family had been at Brunt Estate for about three years. |
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