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James Carroll Bayley, 44, pleaded guilty in May to the murder of his brother Robert last year in Raleigh, North Carolina, and received a sentence of not less than seven years, ten months. Recounting the incident, Bayley said that his brother, whose autopsy revealed a blood alcohol level of .15, tried to force his way into his house, ostensibly to retrieve a loaned power drill. Bayley, who takes antipsychotic medication, said he got out his gun to protect himself and shot Robert “in the right leg to knock him down. Then, after a short time, I shot him in the head to make him dizzy so he would fall.”
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In March near Salina, Kansas, Michael Lewis, 27, placed a .22-caliber bullet on a picnic table to see if he could shoot it with his pellet gun. He could: it exploded, wounding him in the groin. Police said alcohol was not involved. And in April Justin Oaks, 21, and his wife were miraculously uninjured after Oaks, apparently paying too much attention to a phone call while driving on Interstate 10 in Tucson, drifted to his right and wedged their Toyota Corolla underneath an 18-wheeler. The car was dragged sideways 800 feet before the truck could stop.
