![]() ![]() "I'm not intending to buy the total arsenal," Hohmann said. But he said he has not seen any proof that the guns are the weapons used by Whitman, and said the deal will not go through unless the serial numbers on the weapons match.īoth men said they were not interested in buying all the weapons, which had a price tag of $7,500. He said 'It's my gun, I can do what I want with it.' "Īrrington said he had talked to the seller of the gun several times, and had made an offer for the shotgun and the rifle, on Hohmann's behalf. "I was just questioning him, why he was sawing the gun off. ![]() Very, very, very, calm."įor about 25 minutes, the two discussed guns and engaged in other small talk, Arrington said. "It was approximately an hour and 45 minutes before the killings. The body of Whitman's wife, a bayonet in her heart, still lay inside the house. "He had the gun in a vise, and I talked to him while he sawed off the barrel and the stock," Arrington said. ![]() That morning, after killing his mother and wife, Whitman went to his garage to saw off the barrel and stock of a 12-gauge shotgun so it would fit into the footlocker.Īs he performed that work, a postal carrier and former state trooper named Chester Arrington stopped to chat after leaving the Whitman family mail at the house.Īrrington, now a gun dealer and still an Austin resident, said Wednesday he is trying to buy the shotgun. 1, 1966, and then used the rifles to kill 14 people and wound 31 others from the Tower. Whitman murdered his mother and wife on the morning of Aug. The seven guns that Whitman took to the Tower in a footlocker were offered for sale last month. Why not have the rifle that did it?" Hohmann said Wednesday. "I'll always carry some of the lead particles (left in his body from the slug), and I've got some of the cartridges. Hohmann, who now owns the funeral home, wants to buy the gun that put him in Brackenridge Hospital for 21 days. Morris Hohmann was an ambulance attendant for Hyltin-Manor Funeral Chapel when he was struck by a 6mm rifle slug fired by Whitman from his perch atop the University of Texas Tower. This story originally was published on July 27, 1989.Īn Austin man who was shot by Charles Whitman 23 years ago and another man who talked to the sniper on the morning of the massacre are trying to buy two guns from the "Whitman Collection" being offered for sale by a Dallas-area gun dealer. ![]()
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