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Hunter Thompson 'shot himself on phone' |
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The widow of US writer Hunter S. Thompson told the Aspen Daily News, her husband killed himself while they were speaking to one another on the telephone. Thompson, 67, shot himself in the head in the kitchen while his son, daughter-in-law and six-year-old grandson were in the house. Anita Thompson, 32, said she heard the "clicking of the gun." - "I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and did it."
Thompson - best-known for his 1972 account of a drug-addled Nevada trip, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - shot himself on Sunday at his Colorado home.
Mrs Thompson said her husband had asked her to come home from a health club so they could work on his weekly column, but instead of saying goodbye, he shot himself.
She added that she heard a loud, muffled noise, but did not know what had happened.
"I was waiting for him to get back on the phone," she said.
Thompson left verbal and written instructions about what he wanted done with his body, his unpublished works and his assets.
- BBC.com
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