On October 3, 1999, Steven Beard, a retired 75-year-old television executive with a net worth of about $12 million (equivalent to $23 million in 2025), was shot in the stomach with a 20-gauge shotgun while asleep at his home in West Lake Hills, Texas – a suburb of Austin. He survived the shooting and called the police emergency line himself to obtain help.
On October 3, 1999, Steven Beard, a retired 75-year-old television executive with a net worth of about $12 million (equivalent to $23 million in 2025), was shot in the stomach with a 20-gauge shotgun while asleep at his home in West Lake Hills, Texas – a suburb of Austin. He survived the shooting and called the police emergency line himself to obtain help.
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