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LDS missionary slightly injured in Salt Lake shooting

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Juan Figuroa | 11:09 a.m. Dec. 18, 2008

Wow. Three rounds, and only a graze. Fortunate kids.

Anonymous | 11:12 a.m. Dec. 18, 2008

I think it was more than good fortune at work here...

Anonymous | 11:19 a.m. Dec. 18, 2008

That's weird that the missionary didn't report it. They lost a lot of ability to investigate it further.

Just glad they were o.k.

stupid kid | 11:23 a.m. Dec. 18, 2008

He could have prevented a future crime if he had reported it sooner. Makes me wonder what the real story is.

Anonymous | 11:38 a.m. Dec. 18, 2008

This story sound hinky. They were shot at and didn't report it? Wouldn't you be absolutely TERRIFIED if you were grazed by a bullet? Could you help telling everyone?

I don't think this is the whole story.

MMM | 11:36 a.m. Dec. 18, 2008

Lets give some gun permits Utah!!! Im sick of these issues with guns here!!! Everyone can get a gun!!! It is the Cowboy way!

Vicki Doze | 11:43 a.m. Dec. 18, 2008

I'm glad everyone is okay, however I agree that the incident should have been reported right away. I'm wondering if they thought they would get in trouble for throwing snowballs at each other at 8:00 p.m.? Maybe they should have been in their apartments studying?

Maybe stupid kid, but... | 11:43 a.m. Dec. 18, 2008

My bro had a gun held to his head as a missionary in Brazil (by the police, no less) and never wrote anything home about it for the same reason this missionary didn't--Mother would have *freaked*, and never would have slept for the rest of his time in the mission field. Yes the kid should've reported it but you can't blame him for not wanting to worry his mom.

Zell | 11:48 a.m. Dec. 18, 2008

Hey MMM, if you don't like it in Utah move to New York City where you can't have a gun as a law abiding citizen, but the criminals somehow still have them. Better yet move to Cuba, China, or India. Oh yes, in India if there had been permit holders the hostages might be living today. Sometimes its hard to live with liberty in a free state, but it's much harder to live without it!

Hinky? | 11:52 a.m. Dec. 18, 2008

Biggs, what does that mean, hinky?. I mean hinky, that has no meaning. I don't want you using words around me that have no meaning.

Dear "Hinky?" | 12:05 p.m. Dec. 18, 2008

You've never heard of hinky?

It's in Webster's online dictionary. It refers to a suspicious report or story that one rightly questions.

See also "there's more to this story".

800 lbs Gorilla | 12:14 p.m. Dec. 18, 2008

So 8pm on Saturday night, 1700 South West Temple, 3 gunshots, and 2 "victims" and nobody called police? Doesn't sound right. I guess you give the boys the benifit of the doubt but I think self inflicted makes more sense. Perhaps a little cover story of the one armed man in a blue hoodie?

RE: Dear Hinky | 12:15 p.m. Dec. 18, 2008

Watch The Fugitive with Harrison Ford. His comment will make more sense. It was a joke.

Re: Dear "Hinky?" | 12:16 p.m. Dec. 18, 2008

In case you didn't know, what "Hinky?" blogged was a quotation by Tom Lee Jones from the 1993 movie "the Fugitive".

Bob | 12:17 p.m. Dec. 18, 2008

hinkï¿½y [ hï¿½ngkee ] (comparative hinkï¿½iï¿½er, superlative hinkï¿½iï¿½est)

adjective U.S.

Definition:

1. not stable: unstable or subject to sudden change
hinky weather
My computer's been acting hinky.

2. strange: unusual in a way that is hard to describe
something a little hinky in his behavior

Frank | 12:20 p.m. Dec. 18, 2008

I too knew a missionary who was mugged at gunpoint and didnt tell his parents for the same reason, another who was knocked out by the butt of a gun, but that was South America.

I know | 12:21 p.m. Dec. 18, 2008

I was mugged at gunpoint in New Jersey as a missionary I never reported it or told mom until I got home. I completely understand. In New Jersey the would have no

To Anon | 12:23 p.m. Dec. 18, 2008

May be more to the story--or not. But my son was stabbed on his mission and he didn't want to worry me either. His mission president notified us. He and his companion were set upon by several men--and a crowd watched and some even cheered! Missionary work is dangerous; you never know which crazies you may set off. In fact, I had a friend whose brother was murdered on his mission. However, preaching the Gospel has never been without danger--just read your Bible and see what happened way back when--and NOT in Utah, and before guns.

Re: Re: Dear "Hinky?" | 12:23 p.m. Dec. 18, 2008

Thanks!
I didn't remember the movie quote. I won't forget it now.

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veedub | 12:25 p.m. Dec. 18, 2008

If this is really how it happened (and I wonder if it is) it wouldn't surprise me that the missionary didn't tell his parents. Both of our sons in different South American countries came down seriously ill on their missions and never mentioned it to us, for which we scolded them when they got home and learned of it, but in both cases they felt they were blessed with healing and didn't want to worry us.

But honestly, a shooting? Come on guys. This was a crime.

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