By Chet Brokaw
Associated Press
PIERRE, S.D. — A tourist who was hurt last week while watching a mock Old West gunfight in western South Dakota says she’s certain she was hit by a real bullet.
But the lead investigator says officers have not yet determined what happened at the shootout that is supposed to use blanks.
Carrol Knutson of Birchwood, Minn., says hospital staff told her a bullet shattered her fibula, a bone in the lower leg.
Knutson was one of three tourists hurt last week during a mock gun battle staged by re-enactors, who use blanks when they perform several times a week on a street in the Black Hills tourist town of Hill City.
John Ellis of South Connellsville, Penn., was hit in the arm. Jose Pruneda of Alliance, Neb., suffered a minor wound.
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