Snorkeler mistaken for rodent, shot in face: “[William] Roderick told deputies he thought [John William] Cheesman was a nutria swimming in the Smith River near Reedsport, about 90 miles southwest of Eugene, Oregon and shot him with a .22-caliber rifle, police said. A nutria is a water-dwelling South American rodent species that is larger than a muskrat but smaller than a beaver.” If it helps you make some sense out of this, the shooter was a felon in possession of both methamphetamine and marijuana.
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