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...media, confirmed that the Vice President was first interviewed by his chief deputy at 8 a.m. Sunday morning-14 hours after the incident-at the ranch 21 miles south of Sarita, the county seat. Since Monday, the deputy, Gilberto San Miguel Jr., has also gotten statements from Cheney?s hunting partner Pamela Willeford, the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Lichtenstein, ranch owner Katharine Armstrong and her sister Sarita Armstrong Hixon, as well as two outriders helping with the hunt-Jerry and Oscar Medellin. Bo Hubert, the hunt guide, is to give his version of events to deputies on Friday. None...
...searched him and then accompanied him a mile down the road to the main house. The Vice President, says San Miguel, shook his hand and promised to cooperate as they sat down to talk. Cheney, he says in the report, confirmed that he was part of a three-car hunting party consisting of himself, Harry Whittington, Ambassador Willeford, the two Armstrong women, and a three-man hunt team...
...serial number of Cheney?s Perazzi Brescia, an over-and-under, double-barrel 28-gauge shotgun, and asked no more questions of the vice president. There were no questions about drinking at all on Sunday. Outside the main house, he met up with Gerardo Medellin, who identified the hunt party members...
...Whittington, whom they found sitting up in a chair. He requested the conversation not be recorded because of his raspy voice, but promised a written affidavit after he was released from the hospital. "Mr. Whittington did speak of the incident and explained foremost there was no alcohol during the hunt and everyone was wearing the proper hunting attire of blaze orange," writes San Miguel. "While looking for the downed birds, he [Whittington] had returned back at one point to the hunting vehicles.." Katharine Armstrong, who was sitting with her sister Sarita, told him to go for the second covey...
...Sheriff Salinas?s report says he first got a call Saturday around 5:30 p.m. from Capt. Charles Kirk about a possible hunting accident on the Armstrong ranch. He told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times newspaper he was barbecuing with his family when he was reached. Then, about 10 minutes later, a Secret Service agent called the sheriff at home to officially notify them of the accident and the involvement of Cheney. Kirk, meanwhile, had been rebuffed at the Armstrong gate by a Border Patrol agent who knew nothing about the accident. Salinas says in his report he decided...