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"Oh, My
God, We've Been Shot!" by Vaughn Mullen, Managing Editor November 5th, 2000 Shelburne, N.S. - A hockey outing for a Brooklyn, Queens County mother and her 14-year-old son could have proved fatal on Saturday afternoon, had a bullet believed from the rifle of a local hunter come just a foot-and-a-half closer to the front of their vehicle.
Susan Higgins and her son, Angus were traveling west on Highway #103 on a stretch of the road known as 'The Nine Mile' between Sable River and Jordan Falls, Shelburne County. The road is well-traveled by hunters looking for easy access to nearby 'woods roads' and footpaths. Their white 1992 Oldsmobile station wagon was about a mile from the Jordan Falls exit when it was hit. Mrs. Higgins notes that she heard "a thud", turned her head quickly and "saw the back passenger window explode and glass fall into the back seat of the car." My first reaction, she says, was "Oh, my God, we've been shot!" The bullet passed through the outer panel of the back passenger door, hit a steel window bracket and ricocheted either in or out of the car. The bullet hole in the door casing was just a foot-and-a-half from where her son, Angus was sitting in the front passenger seat.
Shelburne RCMP Constable, Luc Cote explained that had Mrs. Higgins "been going 20 to 30 kilometers slower, instead of hitting the rear door, the bullet would have hit the front door", where there could have been a much different result. Constable Cote noted that the Shelburne RCMP detachment is continuing its investigation of the incident. Constable Cote said that so far they have recovered "the outer peeling of a rifle shell" in the door of the car, and have determined that the shot was fired from "the northern side of the highway" from a rifle "pointing in a southerly direction." The annual fall deer hunting season in Nova Scotia began on October 27th; the season ends on December 2nd.
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14-year-old, Angus Higgins was a passenger in the front seat
of the family station wagon.
The bullet entered the right rear passenger door, about 11/2
feet from Angus Higgins, who was sitting in the front passenger seat of the vehicle.
