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Gunfire meant for iguana terrifies vacationing family
A North Carolina family said their idyllic Islamorada vacation was suddenly interrupted by a moment of terror Wednesday morning when they heard a gunshot whistle past them and smack into the wooden dock at the Upper Matecumbe Key resort where they were staying.
"Run, someone is shooting at us," Robert Wells, 54, said to his wife Ruth. Ruth Wells, 49, told detectives she whisked her children off the resort's beach, and the family locked themselves in their hotel room, according to a Monroe County Sheriff's Office Offense report.
The family did hear at least one gunshot that may or may not have hit the dock. But it wasn't the Wells in the crosshairs.
Rather, an iguana perched on the seawall of a house next to the Pines and Palms Resort at mile marker 80.4 was the intended target. And from the blood Sheriff's Office deputies found on top of the seawall, apparently it was a successful reptile hunt.
Jeffrey Spencer Bennett, who lives at mile marker 80.5 on the Old Highway, directly north of the oceanside resort, told deputies that he saw a large iguana sitting on the seawall of his 3-acre property. Bennett, a Marathon gynecologist, said he went inside his house and retrieved his .22-caliber Remington rifle. He went back outside to the yard, where he said he shot the rifle once and the iguana fell into the water.
He told deputies that he positioned himself to take the shot facing the water. No one was in his line of fire, he said.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weir...#storylink=cpy
Gunfire meant for iguana terrifies vacationing family
A North Carolina family said their idyllic Islamorada vacation was suddenly interrupted by a moment of terror Wednesday morning when they heard a gunshot whistle past them and smack into the wooden dock at the Upper Matecumbe Key resort where they were staying.
"Run, someone is shooting at us," Robert Wells, 54, said to his wife Ruth. Ruth Wells, 49, told detectives she whisked her children off the resort's beach, and the family locked themselves in their hotel room, according to a Monroe County Sheriff's Office Offense report.
The family did hear at least one gunshot that may or may not have hit the dock. But it wasn't the Wells in the crosshairs.
Rather, an iguana perched on the seawall of a house next to the Pines and Palms Resort at mile marker 80.4 was the intended target. And from the blood Sheriff's Office deputies found on top of the seawall, apparently it was a successful reptile hunt.
Jeffrey Spencer Bennett, who lives at mile marker 80.5 on the Old Highway, directly north of the oceanside resort, told deputies that he saw a large iguana sitting on the seawall of his 3-acre property. Bennett, a Marathon gynecologist, said he went inside his house and retrieved his .22-caliber Remington rifle. He went back outside to the yard, where he said he shot the rifle once and the iguana fell into the water.
He told deputies that he positioned himself to take the shot facing the water. No one was in his line of fire, he said.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weir...#storylink=cpy
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