Police: Colorado Springs man accidentally shoots himself in jaw
A man was accidentally shot in the face and was found laying on the front yard of a home near downtown Colorado Springs, police said.
A neighbor called police about 6 p.m. Sunday and said a man may have been shot in the neck and was outside in the yard on the 100 block of North 7th Street, off West Colorado Avenue.
Officers arrived and found the man had a gunshot wound on his jaw and determined it had been acciental, but police did not state who was responsible. The man was taken to the hospital and was expected to recover, police said.
A Buddhist monk lights the funeral pyre of Nepalese climber Ang Kaji Sherpa killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest, in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 21, 2014. Buddhist monks cremated the remains of Sherpa guides who were buried in the deadliest avalanche ever recorded on Mount Everest, a disaster that has prompted calls for a climbing boycott by Nepal’s ethnic Sherpa community. The avalanche killed at least 13 Sherpas. Three other Sherpas remain missing and are presumed dead. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)