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: ASPEN, Colo. - Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture
: writer who popularized a new form of journalism in books
: like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally
: shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son
: said. He was 67.
: • Hunter S. Thompson
: "Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends
: and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his
: family," Juan Thompson said in a statement released to
: the Aspen Daily News.
: Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis, a personal friend of
: Thompson, confirmed the death to the News. Sheriff's
: officials did not return calls to The Associated Press late
: Sunday.