She said the family realized in the morning that it would be a story and decided to call the local newspaper, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Juan Guzman said deputies first learned of the shooting when an ambulance was called.īut the Secret Service told a different story, saying agents had informed the local sheriff of the shooting about an hour after it happened and that the vice president had been interviewed about the accident by local authorities on Sunday morning, CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante reports.Īrmstrong said no one discussed notifying the public of the accident Saturday because they were so consumed with making sure Whittington was OK. Sunday, he urged the vice president's office to get the information out 'as quickly as possible.' McClellan said when he learned, around 6 a.m.
McClellan said he first learned Saturday night that someone in the Cheney hunting party was involved, but he didn't know that Cheney was the shooter until the next morning, the spokesman said.
