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Unsure Whether Shooting Wes Accident Or NotLUCE DALE, Miss. (UP!) -Fj George County authorities said \) Sunday they lirx*! not yet deter-i mined if the shotgun death of; Fair Mims Hicks. 35, was accidental or itilcnhcnal.Jlicks was killed Saturday by ! a blast from a 12-gauge .shotgun fired at close range, ac-F [cording to George County Coroner R. C. McKay.Sheriff W. D. Bearry said* I ticks was killed in the home of i his faOier-indnw, [} ouglas Di.\o:j, 55, in I lit? l eaf community. Dixon was jailed here for questioning.i• lt;*The sheriff said il was dis-Mcovered that Douglas Ls suffer-j ,ing from ulccis aiv.t he was | !| ran sf erred to a hospital in'Laurel. Bearry said he remains in |:l:cc tu-tcry. alt I tough no . charges have been filed.In a statement in police, l)ix-jt m said die shotgun Itelonged lo tHicks. He ?a id flicks wasjtcv I threatening him with the weajK) s jon. ar.d he took die gun away j I from him.c i The shersff .raid tliPTe was f IV I? evidence that the I wo men:r J' scuffled. Ho said Dixon Mif ll-* fc-red a sljghi cut on his hand, j nl i.
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Greenville Delta Democrat Times

Greenville, Mississippi, US

Mon, Dec 23, 1963

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