What A Way To Go!

by Truthie Email

Let me re-phrase that - What a horrible way to go!

In Eagle Mountain, Utah a man died while paragliding.  When officials arrived at the scene of the crash, they made a grisly discovery.  The crash did not kill the man.  He died from a self inflicted gunshot wound.

The man, Greg Kehl, was a former member of the City Council in Eagle Mountain.  He took off in his motorized paraglider after having some kind of altercation with his neighbor and firing a shot into the ground.  He reportedly fired the shot because the neighbor would not give him the key to the paraglider.  After Kehl fired the shot into the ground, the neighbor handed over the key.

The .357 Smith & Wesson handgun is still missing and police are trying to locate it before it is found by anyone else. 

 

5 comments

Whoa! You're right, what a way to go! But, I guess I could think of worse places to die than flying around in the wild blue yonder. If I were doing that, though, I wouldn't need a gun -- I'd die of fright! LOL!
09/22/07 @ 05:30
So, did he shoot himself before or after he crashed?
09/25/07 @ 18:33
Comment from: Truthie [Member] Email
Y'know Ernie, I never really thought about it..haha... I think they did say they heard a pop while he was in the air though.
09/25/07 @ 19:30
Comment from: Cheryl Neville [Visitor] Email · http://flyin'high
I just wanted to set a few things straight on this. He actually fired a shot into the ground in front of his wife and two sons (ages 15 and 18 years of age). The key was returned to him as a result, then Greg flew off and shot himself before his paraglider crashed into a field in the city where I now reside. Sadley enough, he was discovered by several children, one of those children is still having nightmares over this incident. His actions were selfish all around. Depression is difficult to deal with, but this gun has not been found and his actions affections so many other people negatively. Shame on him.
10/02/07 @ 14:58
Comment from: Truthie [Member] Email
Cheryl, thanks for the information. That is horrible that children found him. I did not know that. There is only so much that the news reports tell us.
10/02/07 @ 21:05

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