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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A vendor who was on the University of Missouri campus for a smoothie machine demonstration accidentally shot himself in the leg, prompting a campuswide alert of shots fired.
University police Maj. Brian Weimer says officers responded at 3:32 p.m. Tuesday to a loading dock near a dining hall where Michael Stout was suffering from a gunshot wound.
Weimer says Stout was in his vehicle when he showed his firearm to a friend and accidentally fired a round into his own leg.
Stout is not a university employee or a student. He was transported to University Hospital.
The university sent out an all clear at 3:39 p.m.
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