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Show Carbon Youth Shot by .22 In Castle Valley Grand County Sheriff W. H. Bowman aided in moving a Dragerton youth who was struck by a stray 22 calibre bullet in Castle Valley Friday. Fri-day. The boy, Virgil Lee Mar-quez, Mar-quez, 16, was hunting with two friends, Randall Whit-lock, Whit-lock, and Lewis Albert Randall, Ran-dall, also of Dragerton along the Oastle Valley Rim about three miles below the Porcupine Por-cupine Ranch when Marquez sat down on a rock and was struck in the right leg by. a stray bullet. The bullet en- . tered the side of the boy's leg and traveled 7 or 8 inches inch-es up the leg, according to . Sheriff Bowman, but no bones were struck. The boy was carried about VA miles to the road by . Sheriff Bowman, Alvie John-' son, Johnson's gran d-son, d-son, Fletcher Kerby, Roy Turner, and Dutch Gerhardt. Marquez was then brought to Moab where he was taken tak-en to the Allen Memorial Hospital and treated by Dr. Paul Mayberry. |