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JUNE 13, 2017 | Volume 30 No. 70
KID OF STEEL
Jared Roberts gives it his all on Sunday at the annual Spring Sprint and Kamloops Kids of Steel triathlons. The events were held on the same day for the second straight year, with hundreds of kids swimming, biking and running at the Brock Pool site. The day was co-hosted by the Kamloops Triathlon Club and the City of Kamloops. To see many more photos, go online to kamloopsthisweek.com and click on the Sports tab. ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW
Vancouver man dies after mishap at shooting range TIM PETRUK STAFF REPORTER tim@kamloopsthisweek.com
A Vancouver-area man is dead following a freak accident during a weekend pistol competition at a Kamloops shooting range. RCMP Cpl. Jodi Shelkie said police were called to the Kamloops Target Sports Association range at about 1 p.m. on Sunday. She said a 50-year-old man who had been tak-
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ing part in a shooting competition accidentally shot himself. He later died at hospital. Association president Jim Sloper told KTW a two-day competition was slated to wrap up on Sunday when the accident took place. “I think there were about 120 competitors,” he said. “It was unfortunate. Somebody dropped his firearm and it went off. He was an experienced shooter, an instructor.” Sloper said he can’t recall a similar incident
ever taking place in the past. “The club’s been in existence for 100-some-odd years and we’ve never had anything like this happen,” he said. Sloper described the competition as a two-day International Practical Shooting Confederation target competition. “As far as I know, it was cut short,” he said. “I don’t know exactly what happened.” The investigation is ongoing.