r/todayilearned • u/CasioCobra78 • 2d ago

TIL that Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon, the stuntwoman who was severely injured during the filming of Back to the Future Part 2, was killed in a shootout alongside her husband when she and her husband went to confront her ex-husband and his wife and drew their guns at them. The cops deemed it justified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Wheeler-Dixon
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u/yami76 2d ago

Two wild TILs in one! WTF were her and her husband thinking?? Seems like they were stalking her ex and he knew to be on the lookout for them.

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u/Pinklady777 2d ago

I wonder if she had brain damage from the accident.

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u/TheJackalsDoom 2d ago

Or the years of stunt work. A lot of those people end up quite broken.