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January 4, 2004

Albany- An Albany man died Tuesday night, apparently killed at his own hands.

Albany Police think 53-year-old Robert Creel was cleaning a 7-millimeter hunting rifle in an apartment on West Broad Avenue around 6 p.m. when the gun discharged.

Even people who live a couple of blocks away heard the shot.

"It was loud enough that I knew it was a shotgun, or sounded like a shotgun, it was pretty loud," said Ken Rice who live in the area. "And I figured something bad must have happened because you don't hear that around here very much."

Creel was rushed to Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, but he did not survive.

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