Whittington, who was 95, was shot in 2006 during a quail-hunting trip near Corpus Christi. He quickly forgave Cheney.
Harry Whittington walks out of Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital to speak to the media in Corpus Christi Feb. 17, 2006., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
He became the center of national attention in 2006, when then-Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot him while hunting quail on a ranch near Corpus Christi. He spent the last years of his life with more than two dozen shotgun pellets still in his body. Republican governors also selected Whittington for appointments to Texas boards and commissions. He served on the board of Texas Department of Corrections and the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, among others. He pushed an initiative for better treatment of incarcerated Texans with developmental disabilities.
Whittington, a real estate investor, was also in a legal fight with the city of Austin for more than a decade after it tried to seize a block of property he owned. In 2013, a Texas district court ruled the property belonged to the city but ordered the city pay Whittington $10.5 million in compensation.
“And I can see how it can happen when the sun is setting and a person is swinging the gun and not seeing who he is swinging toward,” he told the Statesman. “It was just an accident. … Cheney was swinging to his left and when he did he swung over into where I was hunting.”
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