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qanda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 11:22 PM
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Author Hunter S. Thompson Commits Suicide
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Edited on Sun Feb-20-05 11:24 PM by qanda
ASPEN, Colo. - Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counter-culture author of books such as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67.

"Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News.

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