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Bordentown police chief shot by own gun fired by preteen, police say
ABC ^
| 5/6/2014
| Kenneth Moton
Posted on 05/06/2014 9:49:59 PM PDT by smokingfrog
One gunshot rattled nerves inside the Bordentown Township Municipal Building on Tuesday afternoon and sent people scrambling to help 57-year-old Police Chief Frank Nucera who was hit in the leg.
"I knew something big was going on if I'm seeing all these cop cars coming to the station rather than leaving the station," witness Deborah Nabosse said.
It was around 4:00 p.m. when investigators say the chief, who is also serving as town administrator in the small Jersey community, was inside the tax collector's office.
The Burlington County Prosecutor's Office says a child, described as a preteen, somehow got his hand on the chief's holstered service weapon and fired a shot.
The child's parent had business in the tax office.
"Someone was able to get a gun when they shouldn't have had it in the first place, now an accident happened because of it," Nabosse said.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: accidentalshooting; banglist; donutwatch; wearetheonlyones
To: smokingfrog
"Someone was able to get a gun when they shouldn't have had it in the first place, now an accident happened because of it," It was just an accident....
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posted on
05/06/2014 9:58:17 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
05/06/2014 10:54:58 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
To: smokingfrog; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
"I am the only person in this post office, that I know of, that is mature enough to carry a Glock 40..."
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posted on
05/06/2014 10:59:36 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(Richard Warman censors free speech.)
To: smokingfrog
Bordentown, NJ is, beleive it or not, exactly where the family of Napoleon Bonaparte settled in the US, so perhaps this kid who shot the chief in the leg was settling some old score from Corsica or France.
I would tell you how I know these things, but then, I would have to .....
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posted on
05/06/2014 11:25:31 PM PDT
by
Kenny Bunk
(Take congress in 2014. Have a Constitutional Convention of the States. Save the Republic.)
To: smokingfrog
"Someone was able to
get a gun have an unsupervised and undisciplined brat running loose when they shouldn't have had it in the first place, now an accident happened because of it,"
Mothers, teach your babies to keep their trigger fingers out of other peoples' holsters!
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posted on
05/06/2014 11:27:09 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!©)
To: ApplegateRanch
You’re an idiot. Sad for respectable members of Free Republic.
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posted on
05/06/2014 11:48:20 PM PDT
by
AlmaKing
To: AlmaKing; ApplegateRanch
Youre an idiot. Sad for respectable members of Free Republic.I thought "Applegateranch's" post was pretty good. What's your problem with it?
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posted on
05/07/2014 3:04:34 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(Obamacare needs a death panel.)
To: ApplegateRanch
"Someone was able to get a gun have an unsupervised and undisciplined brat running loose when they shouldn't have had it in the first place, now an accident happened because of it," The current generation of parents is quite possibly the worst in the history of the United States.
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posted on
05/07/2014 3:27:09 AM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: AlmaKing
Youre an idiot. Sad for respectable members of Free Republic. The mother should have kept a better eye on her kid. The kid could also have been stupid enough to stick a hand in an office paper shredder. Moms: the world is not your kids playground; don't inflict them on offices.
That said, the police chief clearly flunked his "weapon retention" training.
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posted on
05/07/2014 3:49:43 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
05/07/2014 2:57:54 PM PDT
by
MileHi
To: MileHi
Most PDs require a level 3 retention holster. Apparently, the chief is a “cowboy” and doesn’t need one if some kid is able to grab hold of his gun that easily. Live and learn (in this case).
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posted on
05/07/2014 4:01:49 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
Glock in a holster that doesn't cover the trigger perhaps. Good way to get a vertical tunnel in your thigh.
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posted on
05/07/2014 4:45:38 PM PDT
by
MileHi
To: AlmaKing
Are you familiar with the Applegate name?
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posted on
05/09/2014 4:42:52 PM PDT
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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