Posted on 03/21/2019 3:22:23 PM PDT by robowombat
Rising country star Justin Carter accidentally shot, killed with gun being used as music video prop
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It was supposed to be a prop, but it wound up being deadly. Country singer Justin Carter was shot to death in Texas with a gun that was being used as a prop for a music video, local news outlets reported Thursday.
The apparent accidental shooting took place in Carter’s own apartment in Woodlands, north of Houston, on Saturday, according to ABC 11. Details of the accident have not been released, but an employee with Carter’s agency, Triple Threat Management, told the station that the gun was ultimately going to be used in the video. Police did not immediately return a request for information.
Carter, 35, was born and raised in Texas and is described as “a country boy to his core” on his website. “Although he just got his start, he’s rising up fast!” a short biography on his website reads.
Carter had recently released two new songs and a music video, and he was working on a new album, according to his Facebook page, which now includes posts from his family.
The singer was influenced by Garth Brooks, Clay Walker, George Strait .... “Justin’s passion is derived from the sound of old country, and he clings to that feeling he gets when he hears it and tries to push that into his music,” the online bio states. “Times are changing and so are the (generation’s) taste in music, but Justin tries to keep a happy medium between both old and new to satisfy everyone.”
A rule was broken and he paid the ultimate price.
Fake headline. Gun was not being used as a prop in a video.
His musical influences aren’t very germane to the story, are they? How about “what was he doing when the gun went off?”
I’d guess there’s a lot more to this story.
Even blanks will kill at short range.
This “shot dead with a prop gun” seems to happen about once per decade.
Last one (IIRC) was actually a prop gun, but was fired so close to the guy’s head that the blank’s wadding killed him.
Brandon Lee can attest to that fact.
Jon-Erik Hexum found that out the hard way. RIP.
Was he screwing around with his pistol and the blanks that were to be used in the video? Just guessing of course.
Guns as props? Country music sure has changed.
Who?
From Wiki:
On March 31, 1993, Lee was filming a scene in The Crow where his character is shot and killed by thugs. In the scene, Lee’s character walks into his apartment and discovers his fiancée being beaten and raped by thugs. Actor Michael Massee’s character fires a Smith & Wesson Model 629 .44 Magnum revolver at Lee as he walks into the room.[16] A previous scene using the same gun had called for inert dummy cartridges (with no powder or primer) to be loaded in the revolver for a close-up scene. (For film scenes that utilize a revolver where the bullets are visible from the front and do not require the gun to actually be fired, dummy cartridges provide the realistic appearance of actual rounds.)
Instead of purchasing commercial dummy cartridges, the film’s prop crew created their own by pulling the bullets from live rounds, dumping the powder charge and then reinserting the bullets. However, they unknowingly or unintentionally left the live primer in place at the rear of the cartridge. At some point during filming, the revolver was apparently discharged with one of these improperly deactivated cartridges in the chamber, setting off the primer with enough force to drive the bullet partway into the barrel, where it became stuck (a condition known as a squib load). The prop crew either failed to notice this or failed to recognize the significance of this issue.
In the fatal scene, which called for the revolver to be fired at Lee from a distance of 3.6–4.5 meters (12–15 feet), the dummy cartridges were exchanged with blank rounds, which feature a live powder charge and primer, but no bullet, thus allowing the gun to be fired without the risk of an actual projectile. But since the bullet from the dummy round was already trapped in the barrel, this caused the .44 Magnum bullet to be fired out of the barrel with virtually the same force as if the gun had been loaded with a live round, and it struck Lee in the abdomen, mortally wounding him.[17][18] He was rushed to the New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he underwent six hours of surgery. Attempts to save him were unsuccessful, and Lee was pronounced dead on March 31, 1993, at 1:03 pm. EST. He was 28 years old. The shooting was ruled an accident due to negligence.[19]
“Even blanks will kill at short range.”
Oddly you are very correct. A blank fired at you from a couple of feet is like fist from Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was young, but will not kill you. A blank fired against the skull ( we are talking tens of thousands of pounds per square inch bore pressure) will drive broken skull fragments into to your brain. You die instantly. It is painless but a definite contender for a Darwin Award.
We need more gun control, only knowledgeable and trained experts like Hollywood and Entertainment Industry stars should be allowed to possess firearms and demonstrate their proper use.
Lesson #1 - Don’t play with guns, props or real. They can kill you.
Sad. RIP.
But why was the gun loaded?
That’s unbelievably stupid. Anyone knowledgeable about guns and reloading could have told them that a squib load (primer and bullet w/o powder) is very dangerous because of the possibility of barrel blockage. It’s why reloaders are very, very careful not to mix primed cases with primed-and- charged cases when loading.
Comes to mind actor Jon-Erik Hexum who shot himself in the head with a prop gun with a ‘blank’ cartridge wadding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum
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