Gardner said he was with the child for all of it. The boy was taken by ambulance to a Lincoln hospital, then to Children's Hospital in Omaha, where he received stitches and was released. “The gun was fired to signal the music to start and for the bride to start her march down the aisle.” “The gun was scripted into the wedding,” Gardner explained. A news release from law enforcement said Gardner fired the gun to get the attention of people attending the wedding, but Gardner said that's a mischaracterization. It was the dried glue that hit the boy and caused the injury, officials believe. Gardner said he made the blank round himself, using an empty shell, some black gunpowder and hot glue to hold it together. Gardner, an Ecto County Commissioner in Texas, said he was officiating the wedding of his nephew at an outdoor venue about 10 miles southwest of the capital city of Lincoln. “I've been around guns all my life, and I've never had anything like this happen.” “I really don't know exactly what happened,” Gardner told The Associated Press on Wednesday from Beatrice, Nebraska, where he's been staying since the incident.
