By Dan Boyce
HELENA, Montana, June 11 (Reuters) – A West Virginia man who
was traveling across the United States gathering material for a
book about kindness in America was shot and wounded while eating
lunch in Montana, police said on Monday.
Ray Doland, 32, was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the
arm following the incident near Glasgow, Montana on Saturday,
Valley County Sheriff Glen Meier said.
Doland was still in hospital on Monday but was expected to
recover, Meier said.
He said that Doland, who was hitchhiking across the country
and writing a memoir about kindness in America, had been eating
lunch at a spot of historical interest and was looking for a
ride.
When Doland approached a vehicle that pulled up near him
the driver opened fire, hitting him in the arm, before speeding
away, Meier said.
A suspect, identified as 52-year-old Charles Lloyd Danielson
III, was later taken into custody in Culbertson, Montana, Meier
said.
“Montana is certainly full of a bunch of nice people and
wonderful people and it’s a shame this kind of thing happens but
it just happens,” Meier said.
(Reporting by Dan Boyce; Writing by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by
David Brunnstrom)
