World Shooting Champion Died After Accidentally Shooting Himself During Hunting Trip
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Cristian Ghilli, 19, was an Italian world junior skeet (clay pigeon shooting) champion who finished third in the World Cup event in Peru and gold at the European Championships. Just in October, Ghilli was crowned World Champion in the sport.
But tragically, Ghilli reportedly shot himself in the stomach while on a hiking trip with friends and later died in the hospital.
Ghilli and his friends were hiking in Montecatini Val di Cecina in Pisa, Italy, when the accident occurred. The Mirror reported that his gun accidentally fired a round into his stomach while he was picking up a few used cartridges.
His friends immediately called for help and Ghilli was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was immediately operated on in an attempt to stop the internal bleeding. Unfortunately, he died shortly after on Thursday evening when doctors were unable to stop the bleeding.
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Always sad. Negligent discharge while plinking? The article is light on details.
Yep, sure is, but prayers for that fella and his family from here.
Sad either way. The only mention in reports of the gun used for the hunting trip was that it was a rifle. Whether a rifle or a shotgun, it would have been a very short barrel ???
Was Alec Baldwin there?
Slip and fall on uneven ground?
Obviously he had been shooting to bend down and pick up empties. Safety had to be off to be discharged. However maybe after he picked up the empties he continued to shoot at a target and it ricochet the bullet back to him.
I have read three reports on this, and nobody has said whether it was a shotgun, or a rifle. I will say that, at close range, nothing is more lethal than a charge of birdshot.