Man shot in Noblesville card game

“It was apparently more of a flesh wound than anything else.”

An Indianapolis man shot while trying to disarm one of two robbers who crashed a Noblesville poker game was released from Methodist Hospital this morning with minor injury. via The Indianapolis Star

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Thu, August 2nd, 2007

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