Texas Man Injured After Bullet Ricochets Off Armadillo

DALLAS — An East Texas man was wounded after he fired a gun at an armadillo in his yard and the bullet ricocheted back to hit him in his
face, the county sheriff said on Friday.
Cass County Sheriff Larry Rowe said the man, who was not identified, went outside his home in Marietta, southwest of Texarkana, at around 3 a.m. on Thursday morning.
He spotted the armadillo on his
property and opened fire.
"His wife was in the house. He went outside and took his .38 revolver
and shot three times at the armadillo," Rowe
said.
The animal's hard shell deflected at least one of three bullets, which then struck the man's jaw,
he said.