Posted on 12/29/2016 12:44:59 PM PST by PROCON
A 24-year-old woman is fighting for her life after she was shot in the head Monday afternoon at a shooting range in South Carolina.
It happened around 2 p.m. at the Skip J Range in Anderson. WYFF is reporting the Georgia woman was at the range with her family when she was accidentally shot. When emergency responders arrived at the scene, she was unresponsive.
Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore told WSPA the bullet entered her skull through her eye and is lodged in her brain. Shore said the woman had been to the shooting range with her family in the past.
Skip J Range owner Jerry James said it’s the first accident at the range, which has been open for 24 years. He said the range has “serious” safety protocols. Each shooter has their own shooting bay, and all guns have been accounted for in the wake of the accident.
The range shut down Monday after the incident but was back open Tuesday. Police are investigating.
She was shot in the eye, which leads me to believe this may be a case of bad recoil management and she shot herself. Just a guess but it seems likely, if the investigation finds no criminality.
Update: The woman has died.
Updates on the story:
Deputies continue investigation into woman’s shooting at gun range
Individual bays. Shot in the eye.
I’m guessing a reloading accident or some such.
A ricochet maybe?
Don’t look down the barrel to see if it’s loaded.
Years ago we had a woman come into a local range, rented a revolver and blew her brains out.
Prayers concerning the lady and her family and friends.
That God prevent further evil from spreading and comfort the suffering and bereaved.
I just wouldn’t know. It COULD be something as careless as having peeked down the barrel.
Very very sad... a suicide could possibly transpire that way. Why do it at a shooting range though... although again this is obeying the devil, so we might as well not ask why ugly side effects. We know what the devil wants. (He came to kill, steal, and destroy.)
MOST people don’t do this. A sad few, though, do.
It’s probably not the case here, but here’s something I see way too often at ranges, both public and private.
Someone asks to go downrange to check a target. Everyone gives the OK. Then some people walk downrange.
And then some fool - who is still at his shooting bench - starts messing around with his gun, the barrel of which is still pointed downrange, where people are now standing.
That absolutely infuriates me, and I will say something if no one else beats me to it. But I wonder how often that happens and no one notices.
Possible misfire?
May she RIP.
5.56mm
Insufficient information to draw conclusions at this time...However and because...
By design, firearms project lethal force at distance when trigger is pressed...Bullets travel in direction muzzle is pointed when trigger is engaged...
Likely (clearly?) one or more rules for safe gun handling were violated by the deceased, a companion or bystander/shooter...A tragic, senseless and needless death resulted...
Investigators should be able to determine details/cause...ND is a likely possibility...
I witnessed a (presumably novice) shooter close to me on the firing line turn a loaded .38 toward her face, finger still on trigger, and look into the muzzle after a misfire...All I had time to do was shout STOP!, grab her revolver around the cylinder and shove her weapon in hand downrange...
NOT one of my students...I did ask management to dismiss her from the range...
It could have been a ricochet. It could have been another shooter. It could have been a reloading accident. It could have been a fumbled up attempt to clear a stoppage.
Could be about anything. I once spent a year working at a busy indoor range. Its truly amazing how many impossible things can and do happen. It takes extreme vigilance and even then... things happen. Very sad.
Not you guy’s range, is it?
Withholding any comments since anything said on my part would be pure speculation..................
I belong to a private club and standard practice is first arriving shooter becomes range safety officer unless he/she defers to another...
Also standard practice when a cease fire is asked for nobody leaves the line until all firearms are unloaded, bolts locked open on bags, rest or bench, preferably with open chamber indicator in place, and all shooters have stepped back from the line...
Only then is a “Line Is Clear” declared and shooters may go downrange to check and replace targets...
Range officer and all shooters are obliged to determine downrange is clear before “Range Is Hot!” command is given so shooting can resume...No gun handling, unpacking or packing up allowed during cease fire...
Well, she didn’t see it coming...
When my brother, myself and others get some trigger time, one of us is signaled as Master while we are there...
Nope.
A wise practice...Too often, people get caught up in the excitement and comraderie of the range, or get in a rush because they’re on the clock, and attention to safety suffers...
At our range if there’s a cold line the shooters have to Empty Chamber Indicator (ECI) the weapon and step away from the bench.
A terrible shame. Hard to figure.
So sad to hear this- firearms safety rules were broken.
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