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SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake police say a fatal shooting overnight appears to have been an accident.
A 33-year-old man who had been drinking for several hours with his brother near 260 South and 500 East, picked up a gun about 11:20 p.m. and it went off while he was handling it, according to police.
The man, whose name has not been released, accidentally shot himself in the head. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
No other details about the incident were immediately available.
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Pat Reavy interned with KSL NewsRadio in 1989 and has been a full-time journalist for either KSL NewsRadio, Deseret News or KSL.com since 1991. For the past 25 years, he has worked primarily the cops and courts beat.
