Woman hugs cop...shot and killed.

[Tgace]

http://www.wgrz.com/news/national/article/174100/2/Police-Hug-Triggers-Officers-Gun-Kills-Woman

....by an accidental discharge.

Had to have been a shoulder holster I would think. Still trying to figure out how it fired. 1911 cocked and unlocked?

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[seasoned]

Just read this myself. Shoulder holster would be my guess also, very tragic

 

[Carol]

Nope, not a shoulder holster.

http://www.freep.com/article/201207...-duty-Detroit-police-officer-s-gun-discharges

“This was just a freak accident,” John Goldpaugh, a lawyer for the Detroit Police Officers Association, said Sunday. “They were having a party and the next thing, a woman is dead. He’s devastated by what happened.”

Goldpaugh, who spent several hours with the officer after the shooting, said the veteran beat patrolman was hosting a party at his home and was dancing with his wife when the other woman came up behind him and tugged at his waist.“And the gun went off,” Goldpaugh said. “It’s a fluke accidental shooting.”

The weapon, a department-issued, 40-caliber Smith & Wesson semiautomatic pistol, was in a holster worn inside the officer’s waistband and was covered by his shirt, Goldpaugh said.​

An IWB carry piece just happens to go off when he's touched by a young woman (who isn't his wife) at a party?

 

[Tgace]

Nope, not a shoulder holster.

http://www.freep.com/article/201207...-duty-Detroit-police-officer-s-gun-discharges



An IWB carry piece just happens to go off when he's touched by a young woman (who isn't his wife) at a party?

Hmmm...I'm curious about the mechanics of how the weapon discharged....and the ballistics of how the round traveled.

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[Tgace]

A holstered weapon "accidentally" going off? Id like to know how...shirt get pulled into the holster and through the trigger guard?

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[jks9199]

Yeah... doesn't add up.

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[Takai]

Yeah... doesn't add up.

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You expect a news report to actually put out all of the pertinent information?

 

[Tgace]

http://www.lawofficer.com/article/news/detroit-woman-killed-shot-whil

Lawofficer.com is reporting the victim sustained a heart/lung shot...I would think that the officer would have to have been bent over at the waist for that to have happened.


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[Steve]

This just flat out doesn't make sense to me.

 

[Elite09g8]

Why is the cop strapped at his own party? Weird...

 

[Rich Parsons]

I would hold everything being told to the public in question as the police department is Detroit. I know a lot of you on this board might take offense, but where the department is does make a difference in public relations and the level (if any) of corruption.

 

[jks9199]

Why is the cop strapped at his own party? Weird...

Not really. Lots of cops carry most of the time. Reasons are too complicated for typing on a mobile device


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[Buka]

Damnedest thing I've heard in a while.

 

[elder999]

News is reporting it as a S&W M&P .40.........

I'm thinking his wife shot her.

 

[Tez3]

Well it's not the sort of accidental discharge one usually associates with a woman hugging a man. I detect a certain frisson of glee going around that you get when there's hints of sexual scandal. It's the sort of story the red tops here love.

 

[malteaser14]

This puzzles me, aren't holstered guns pointing towards the floor to prevent fatalities in the cases of accidental misfire? Even if the cop was bent over this would only angle a gun shot to the pelvis or abdomin, and knowing bullets don't travel in a straight line there is a chance of it creating these injuries, albeit a very slim chance! Something doesn't seem to add up. I'm interested to see the outcome though! Tragic loss of a life in any case

 

[Gentle Fist]

yikes!

 

[Bill Mattocks]

Why is the cop strapped at his own party? Weird...

Totally normal. Many jurisdictions allow full time carry, and Detroit is one of them. If you lived in Detroit, you might want to be armed at all times as well.

 

[ballen0351]

I carry the same weapon in an inside the pants holster I've been climbed on by my kids. Tackled into a pool by friends. And fought suspects in a bar and its never "accidentally" gone off.

 

[jks9199]

This puzzles me, aren't holstered guns pointing towards the floor to prevent fatalities in the cases of accidental misfire? Even if the cop was bent over this would only angle a gun shot to the pelvis or abdomin, and knowing bullets don't travel in a straight line there is a chance of it creating these injuries, albeit a very slim chance! Something doesn't seem to add up. I'm interested to see the outcome though! Tragic loss of a life in any case

Holstered guns point down to put the grip in an accessible position for drawing the gun. Some point to the rear (shoulder holster). Bullets don't travel in a straight line; it's an arc, and they can ricochet... but at those ranges, the line may as well be straight.