JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) -- A bullet fired in the air during a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony came down and struck a participant in the head, critically injuring him, authorities said.

Gregory Allen Freeman, 45, was charged with aggravated assault and reckless endangerment in the Saturday night incident that wounded Jeffery S. Murr, 24.

About 10 people, including two children, had gathered for the ceremony. The man who was being initiated was blindfolded, tied with a noose to a tree and shot with paintball guns as Freeman fired a pistol in the air to provide the sound of real gunfire, Sheriff Fred Phillips said.

A bullet struck Murr on the top of the head and exited at the bottom of his skull, authorities said.

Freeman fled the ceremony but was arrested near his home, authorities said. He was released on $7,500 bail.

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I'm sure they will blame the blacks or jews for somehow making that bullet fall the way it did, but nature still has some "thinning" to do when it comes to the klan... :awinky:

Darwin awards go to idiots who try to clean *themselves* from the gene pool; although I think this guy should be given honorable mention since he was evidently cleaning up someone as daft as himself. :)

Seriously though, thousands of bullets are fired into the air every year. How many do you actually hear of where the bullet comes back down just a few feet away? Weird.

My divine hand works! :nyanya:

one of those stories I don't mind reading more than once..so nice