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=== Sniper shoots: R. Weaver is wounded, V. Weaver is killed === Before the negotiators arrived at the cabin, FBI [[Police sniper|sniper]] [[Lon Horiuchi]], from a position over {{convert|200|yd}} north and above the Weaver cabin,<ref name=RRTF_OPR_IVF2f>RRTF, ''Report of the RRTF to the OPR'' (1994), Ch. IV., Β§F.2.f., p. 188.</ref> shot and wounded Randy Weaver in the back with the bullet exiting his right armpit, while he was lifting the latch on the shed to visit the body of his dead son.<ref name="usnews">{{cite journal|author=Witkin, Gordon|date=September 11, 1995|title=The Nightmare of Idaho's Ruby Ridge|journal=[[U.S. News & World Report]]|format=print and online news|volume=119|issue=10|page=24|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/9509127523/nightmare-idahos-ruby-ridge|access-date=February 8, 2017|archive-date=February 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211082435/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/9509127523/nightmare-idahos-ruby-ridge|url-status=dead}}</ref> (The sniper testified at the later trial that he had put his crosshairs on Weaver's spine, but Weaver moved at the last second.<ref>{{cite book|last=Spence|first=Gerry|year=2015|title=Police State: How America's Cops Get Away with Murder|url={{GBurl|MvFICgAAQBAJ|pg=PA51}}|page=51|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-1-250-07345-7}}</ref>) As Weaver, his 16-year-old daughter Sara,<ref name="People" /> and Harris ran back toward the cabin, Horiuchi fired a second bullet, wounding Harris in the chest. This bullet killed Vicki Weaver, who was standing behind the door of the cabin when Harris entered.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Newsweek Staff |date=August 28, 1995|title=The Echoes of Ruby Ridge|journal=[[Newsweek]]|pages=25β28|url=https://www.newsweek.com/echoes-ruby-ridge-182402 |access-date=February 8, 2017}}</ref> Vicki was holding the Weavers' 10-month-old baby Elisheba.<ref name="People">{{cite journal|author1=Hewitt, Bill |author2=Nelson, Margaret |author3=Haederle, Michael |author4=Slavin, Barbara |date=September 25, 1995|title=A Time to Heal|journal=[[People (magazine)|People]]|volume=45|issue=13|url=http://people.com/archive/a-time-of-heal-vol-45-no-13/|access-date=February 13, 2017}}</ref><ref name=IdahoVHoriuchi1>{{cite court|litigants=State of Idaho v. Lon T. Horiuchi [1]|court=9th Cir.|date=June 5, 2001|url=http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9th/9830149p.pdf |access-date=|via=Findlaw.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite episode|title=Ruby Ridge|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/ruby-ridge/|last=Goodman|first=Barak|access-date=July 23, 2017|series=American Experience|season=29|number=6|series-link=American Experience|network=PBS|date=February 14, 2017|time=30:00}}</ref>
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