Former A’s Slugger Jose Canseco Out Of Surgery After Shooting Himself While Cleaning Gun
Former Major League Baseball player Jose Canseco. (Photo By Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
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OAKLAND (CBS/AP) – Former Oakland A’s slugger Jose Canseco is recovering after shooting himself in the hand at his Las Vegas home.
Metro police Lt. Mark Reddon says officers responded to a call of an accidental shooting shortly after 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Reddon says the former A’s All-Star outfielder told police he was cleaning his gun in the kitchen when it fired, shooting a finger on his left hand. He was taken to University Medical Center of Southern Nevada.
Canseco is a right-handed batter who hit 462 career home runs and was a six-time All-Star. He also played for Texas, Boston, Toronto, Tampa Bay, the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox during a career that spanned from 1985 to 2001.
An email sent to a representative of Canseco on Tuesday night was not immediately returned.
Early Wednesday morning, Canseco’s fiancee, Leila Knight, tweeted that he made it through surgery:
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