Posted on 11/25/2014 7:47:21 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – A woman appears to have accidentally fatally shot herself in the head with a gun bought to prepare for possible Ferguson-related unrest, according to sources briefed on the police investigation.
The shooting occurred Friday night in downtown St. Louis, the city’s Metropolitan Police Department said, in an area dominated by vacant lots beside a football stadium.
The female victim, identified in a police report as Becca Campbell, 26, was a passenger in a car involved in an auto accident.
Her 33-year-old boyfriend was driving, the sources told CNN.
The boyfriend, who wasn’t identified, told police that the couple had bought a gun because of fears of unrest related to the pending grand jury decision on the shooting of Michael Brown, the sources said.
He told investigators that as they drove late Friday night, the victim waved a gun, jokingly saying the couple were ready for Ferguson, the sources said.
He ducked to get out of the way of the gun and accidentally rear-ended another car.
He said the accident caused the gun to go off and she was struck by a bullet in the head, the sources said.
The victim was rushed to a hospital but died.
The investigation is continuing because police want to be sure the story as told by the boyfriend is correct, the sources said.
Police are awaiting gun trace results, as part of the ongoing investigation.
Because he (rightly) instinctively ducked from a loaded gun?
It happened to me under much lesser circumstances. I got uptight about snowballs falling over in my car on passenger side floor, and knee-jerk reached over to right them. Thus turning the wheel of my parents’ car and ramming it into the next parked car.
Well, that makes it even more questionable. That would be quite a turn about, from pointing straight ahead to turnin and pointing at her head.
If you notice, all the recent gun “accidents” seem to hit the victim in the head, usually in the face. The other “accidents” all involved children. Studies show that this type of “accidents” , involving children, are not really accidents at all, but rather intentional acts of violence by children too young to fully understand the consequences.
A neighbor kid, who lived up the street from us, once took a broom stick and shoved it up his brother’s scrotum, when the poor kid was only four. That was called an accident, too.
How did we get from discussing how the car turned to how the gun turned?
Even so, have you ever seen accidents inside? Things go flying, including one’s arms and body parts. Hell, people go flying out windows. It’s not shocking her hand might get turned inward, palm still holding the gun, a quick jerk on the trigger - bam.
Could there be foul play? Sure. Just not very evident here.
Also, I fail to see how a “boyfriend” would be on any insurance policy.
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Not that kind of food l ply. It is possible that the boyfriend got mad at the stupid girl and grabbed her hand and pointed the gun back at her, causing him too lose control of the car and boom.
” There’s a few more:
1. Don’t move a vehicle with a gun that is loaded. Unload the gun, then you can drive. (modified version of keep the gun unloaded until you are ready to shoot)
2. Keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.”
Those aren’t a “few more”.
1. Driving with a loaded gun is fine, those of us with CCW permits do it all the time, as do the police.
2. “Keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.” is the same as “3) Don’t point the gun at anything you don’t wish to destroy.” The wording of the latter drives home the point more strongly.
The rules I quoted are emphatically what the NRA advocates, and if followed will prevent any accidental shooting incidents.
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