Hitchhiker retracts claim he was victim of drive-by shooting

Source: USA Today


A hitchhiker, who says he is writing a memoir called Kindness in America and claimed he was victim of a drive-by shooting in Montana, now admits he shot himself, according to Montana authorities.

Valley County Undersheriff Vernon Buerkle says 39-year-old Ray Dolin of Julian, W. Va., admitted Thursday night that his earlier claim was false, the Associated Press reports.


No charges were immediately filed against Dolin, but Buerkle says the case remains under investigation.

Dolin had claimed a man in a maroon pickup pulled over and shot him in the arm while he was hitchhiking along U.S. Highway 2 west of Glasgow, Mont.

Authorities later arrested a 52-year-old man and charged him felony assault, but have now dropped the charges.




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