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According to Agca's testimony, he fired "two or three shots in rapid succession" as John Paul came into pistol range in the square. Martella argues that Agca fired only twice, and that it was Celik who got off the third shot heard by witnesses and recorded on the film. Nonetheless, only one pistol, one bullet and one spent cartridge were ever recovered...
...reasons was not shown at Agca's July 1981 trial. According to Martel la's report, the footage clearly shows the explosion of two shots coming from Agca's gun, and the film's sound track contains two reports from his 9-mm Browning automatic pistol. Martella says that as many as 20 witnesses reported they heard three shots. In addition, he cites a previously undisclosed portion of Agca's confession in which he recalls that "if I found myself unable to fire off at least five pistol shots, Celik also should have fired...
After extensive ballistics tests, Martella concluded that three shots had been fired at the Pope and that only the first two came from Agca's Browning pistol. The third bullet, which hit the Pope's left hand and right arm, was fired by Celik, according to the judge. That slug was never found, but a reconstruction of its trajectory showed that it could not have been fired by Agca. Though Agca at first tried to protect Celik, who investigators say was "like a brother" to him, he eventually confessed that Antonov Celik was in the square, though only...
DIED. Jon-Erik Hexum, 26, actor and model who was starring in the new TV series Cover Up until he shot himself in the temple two weeks ago with a blank-loaded .44-cal. Magnum pistol while playing "Russian roulette"; of brain damage; in San Francisco. After a week's struggle to save his life, doctors pronounced him brain dead, and his heart, kidneys and corneas were used for transplants. The show will go on; a search for Hexum's replacement has already started...
HOSPITALIZED. Jon-Erik Hexum, 26, hunky TV actor; after he accidentally shot himself in the temple with a blank from a prop pistol during filming of his new series Cover Up; in Los Angeles...