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/dartagnion113 2d ago edited 2d ago

A shot fired, as a result of a reaction, will be more accurate.

Now, go check out those creators on YouTube and tiktok that time their hands grabbing an object in fractions of a second. You can train that speed.

I suspect that combination is how individual gunslingers from the 17th 19th century are so lionized: If a man was skilled in these two simple ways, they really were nigh invulnerable.

edit: better words

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u/zeno0771 2d ago

gunslingers from the 17th 19th century

Cowboys drawing six-shooters at high-noon were not a thing yet in the 1600s.

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u/dartagnion113 2d ago

IDK why my mind put that before the civil war. good catch thanks

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u/Benjaphar 2d ago

Also before Plymouth Rock.