Wayne Shot Himself

Last night, Thursday night, 7/19/2006, Cris Mills, Bill Porter and I (Tom Carr) were at Wayne Morris's apartment making a silly video, like some of the others we have made and put on youtube. You know Wayne likes to play with guns and do stupid things when he is drinking. While we were filming the video he put a shotgun in his mouth, that he thought was not loaded, and pulled the trigger. It was loaded. I watched it. It is the most horrible thing I have ever seen. I thought he was dead. We all went crazy. Cris dialed 911 but didn't know the address of the apartment. I ran out and beat on the door of the apartment next door, no one was home there, but I kept beating on doors and finally got someone to call 911. The police came, and an ambulance. I thought Wayne was dead but he crawled outside. They took him away on a stretcher. He is in North Fulton Hospital. I am not sure how bad his injuries are, or if he will live or what. The police came and asked us a bunch of questions. I guess they suspected we had shot him. The whole thing was on video though, and they watched the video and took statements from us and after a few hours told us we could go. We were all obviously in a state of shock and the police were supportive and helpful and kind. The main detective at first talked to the hospital and said the prognosis was not good, but then a hour later talked to them again and said it was not as bad as it looked at first. The shotgun blast may have gone over to the side and just blown away his check and the side of his face but not hit his brain or his eyes.

I am sending out this email to let some people know what happened, but I don't want to talk about it. Do not call me. I will call you in few days when the shock has worn off. I would guess Cris and Bill feel the same way. Do not call us. Let us digest this and we will talk about it in a few days.

Tom Joe was at work but the police called him and he came back. He is also probably in a state of shock and doesn't want to talk about it.