Opinion

Antique rifle causes a contemporary injury

Ran Cochran managed to call 911. After that, it’s all pretty much a blur.
“I don’t remember much after that,” said Cochran, the Rio Blanco County coroner and owner of Cochran Memorial Chapels in Meeker and Rangely. He is recovering at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction after being shot in the stomach.
“I’m getting along pretty well,” Cochran said last Sunday. “I’ll be all right.”
Cochran had surgery early March 12, to remove the…