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Husband has headache, discovers he was shot

By TIMES WIRES
Published June 27, 2007

PORT ST. LUCIE - A woman was arrested Tuesday after her husband awoke in the middle of the night with a terrible headache and later learned he had a bullet lodged in his head.

St. Lucie County sheriff's deputies initially thought Michael Eugene Moylan had been hit by a stray bullet, but later realized the couple's story did not match up, Sheriff Ken Mascara said.

April Moylan, 39, was arrested Tuesday night and was in the process of being charged with attempted murder, Mascara said.

Moylan, 45, woke up at 4:30 a.m. and thought he had suffered an aneurism or that his wife had elbowed him in his sleep, authorities said. His wife drove him to the hospital, where doctors said a bullet had lodged behind his right ear. "How can this guy be shot, not know that he was shot in bed and then walk into a hospital room. It was just amazing to all of us, " Mascara said.

Moylan did not undergo surgery, but was transferred to a trauma facility, authorities said. His condition as not known.

Man charged in crash that killed 7-month-old

PENSACOLA - A man suspected of driving drunk is charged with killing a 7-month-old girl when he hit the car of an Alabama family headed to Florida for a beach vacation.

Gary Andrew White, 40, of Pensacola was charged Monday with DUI manslaughter in Saturday's death of Chloe Collar. Two breath tests showed he had a blood alcohol content of 0.094 percent and 0.086 percent, according to a police report. Both are above the 0.08 percent threshold at which Florida law presumes someone is unable to drive a motor vehicle safely.

Christopher and Danielle Collar were traveling from Birmingham, Ala., to Perdido Key when White struck their car from behind, police said.

Danielle Collar, 22, fractured her pelvis in three places. Her husband suffered a concussion and has little recollection of the crash.

White, who suffered minor injuries, is being held in Escambia County Jail on $101, 000 bail.

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