Right-Wing Figure Found Wounded
From Times Wire Reports
James “Bo” Gritz, the former Green Beret colonel and leader of the right-wing Patriot Movement, was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound along a highway in Orofino, Idaho. Clearwater County Sheriff Nick Albers said the 59-year-old Gritz shot himself in the upper left chest with a .45-caliber handgun. Albers would not say whether the shooting was an attempted suicide, but he did say it was not accidental.
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