Texan Shoots Kin, Self After Dole Is Picked
A terminally ill Texan fatally shot his cousin, wounded his stepdaughter and then killed himself after becoming enraged over the nomination of Bob Dole as the Republican presidential candidate, police said Thursday.
Ernest Comegys, 70, watched the Republican National Convention in San Diego on television Wednesday. He went into his bedroom, grabbed a handgun and shot repeatedly at his cousin and stepdaughter before killing himself with a bullet to the head, officers said.
An officer said Comegys was terminally ill with cancer and had been extremely depressed.
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