A West Virginia man who was traveling across the United States gathering material for a book about kindness in the United States was shot and wounded while eating lunch in Montana.
Ray Doland (32) was hospitalised with a gunshot wound to the arm following the incident near Glasgow, Montana, on Saturday, Valley County sheriff Glen Meier said.
Mr Doland was still in hospital yesterday but was expected to recover, Mr Meier said. He said Mr Doland, who was hitchhiking across the country and writing a memoir about kindness in America, had been eating lunch at a spot of historical interest.
When Mr Doland approached a vehicle that pulled up near him the driver opened fire, hitting him in the arm, before speeding away, the sheriff said.
A suspect, identified as Charles Lloyd Danielson III (52), was later taken into custody in Culbertson, Montana.
"Montana is certainly full of a bunch of nice people and wonderful people, and it's a shame this kind of thing happens, but it just happens," the sheriff said.
Reuters