Tales of the gun

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Police responded Tuesday afternoon to a report that a masked gunman broke into a home, robbed a couple and shot the wife.


After the 22-year-old woman was taken by Marion City firefighters to Marion General Hospital, police determined her husband had shot her in their home when he was playing around with a gun.


There was no masked robber...



http://www.marionstar.com/article/20110525/NEWS01/105250303/Man-gun-shoots-wife?odyssey=nav|head

Edison woman accidentally runs over, kills husband while clearing snow

EDISON — An Edison couple's routine effort to clear snow from their Tyroler Avenue driveway turned tragic Friday morning, when the wife, backing out from the driveway in the couple’s car, ran over her husband and killed him, police said.

Police found Joseph Gallof, 70, pinned under the couple’s car around 8:30 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said Joseph Gallof’s death was an accident and that no charges are being filed against Carole Gallof, 69.

“The car was covered with snow. She was using her rear view mirror. She called to him, and apparently he didn’t hear her,” Edison police Chief Thomas Bryan said.

A family friend, Rabbi Deborah Bravo of Temple Emanu-el, answered the phone at the Gallof home and called the accident "a terrible tragedy."

"This is a horrible loss for the family," Bravo said. "He was a beloved man and he will be missed."

As in all fatalities, the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office will conduct its own investigation.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/01/edison_woman_accidentally_runs.html

 

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A 78-year-old Plant City, Florida man told police he had a bad dream and that when he woke up he discovered he had been shot.


The man, who police have not identified, sleeps with a loaded Smith & Wesson .357 handgun under his pillow for protection.


He unintentionally shot himself while sleeping…



http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/region_east_hillsborough/plant_city/plant-city-man-who-sleeps-with-a-gun-under-his-pillow-for-safety-accidentally-shot-off-his-fingertip

 

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3-year-old Kvonta Dodd of Greenville County, South Carolina died during surgery at the Greenville Hospital.


Kvonta's uncle (who has not been identified by police) told police he was cleaning his small caliber handgun and while he was unloading the gun it unintentionally discharged.


The bullet struck Kvonta in the upper body.


The boy was not breathing when police arrived…



http://www.wyff4.com/news/27935968/detail.html

Lawmen: Woman Runs Over Her Child, Killing Him

A tragic accident in Currituck County on Saturday, in which Highway Patrol troopers says a woman did not see her 6-year-old son when she backed up over him in the driveway.

Sgt. Jeff Wilson of the Highway Patrol says the woman's name is Katheryn Moster. Wilson says he believes the child may have been playing with toys, and Moster did not see him while in her SUV.

The six-year-old died from his injuries at a Norfolk, Virginia hospital.

Wilson says no charges will be brought against Moster.

http://www.witn.com/northeasternnorthcarolina/headlines/43758907.html

 

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A McKinney, Texas homeowner is in critical condition in Parkland Memorial Hospital after being shot with his own gun while confronting burglars in his home.


http://www.scntx.com/articles/2011/04/28/news_update/717.txt

 

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Carlos Sepulveda, manager of the West Side Italian restaurant in San Antonio, Texas was concerned over "a lot of odd activity during closing and at the risk of anything happening at the restaurant," so he decided to bring a gun to work for protection.


He had only had the gun at work for a few days when something did happen.


Monday night Sepulveda took the loaded, cocked revolver out of the cashbox to count the evening's money.


When he put the gun down on the counter he unintentionally discharged the weapon.


The bullet went through the nearby wall into the bathroom and stuck 25-year-old Christian Bilderback, who was using the restroom at the time...




http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...om-1393595.php

Wrong-way teen driver kills man

A teenager drove her car into oncoming traffic on a major southwest metro highway, struck a car head-on and killed that driver, authorities said Friday.

The State Patrol said at about 7:30 p.m. Thursday on Hwy. 169, just north of Jordan, a 17-year-old girl was heading south, crossed the median and hit a northbound car.

Killed was Zachary Anderson, 27, of St. James, Minn., family members said.

Anderson's stepfather, Jeffrey Benson, said that Anderson had leukemia as a child, but "we were blessed to have him as a child and for as long as we did."

Anderson and a friend, Will Sizer, 28, also of St. James, were heading to the Twin Cities when the crash occurred, Benson said. Sizer sustained non-life-threatening injuries, according to the patrol, which told the family that Anderson was not using his cell phone, was not under the influence of alcohol and was wearing his seat belt.

The still-unnamed teen was hurt but expected to survive.

http://www.startribune.com/local/south/107480638.html

 

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Troy Bailey, of Miramar, Florida called 911 seeking help.


He told the dispatcher that his two-and-a-half year old son had grabbed his 9mm Glock semi-automatic handgun and shot his mother, 33-year-old Julia Bennett.


"Oh God, I can't believe this," Bailey said. "He shot his mom. God in heaven, help me please." Julia died before emergency help arrived.



http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/26/11-reveals-toddler-reportedly-shot-killed-mom/

 

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33-year-old Kenneth Randolph, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 7 1/2 to 15 years in prison for an unintentional shooting in October that killed a 41-year-old Allison Hill man.


According to reports, Randolph and the victim, James Snipes, were talking when Randolph dropped a gun.


The gun discharged when it hit the ground and the bullet struck Snipes in the chest, killing him.


Randolph was barred from possessing a gun because of a 1997 felony conviction. He pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment, and firearms violations.


The District Attorney noted that this was the second time Randolph had been convicted of accidentally killing someone.



http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/05/harrisburg_man_gets_state_pris.html

Illegal alien with multiple DUI’s kills nun and injures others while on bond awaiting deportation hearing...

rince William County police notified U.S. Immigration and Naturalization officials about the status of Carlos A. Martinelly Montano, 23, of Bristow after both his first and second drunken driving arrests, said county police spokesman Jonathan Perok.

“How he could be out of jail with this many offenses on his record, and be wanted by Immigrations and Customs enforcement is beyond me. I foresee him serving many years in the penitentiary,” said Prince William County Commonwealth Attorney Paul B. Ebert.

ICE officials late Monday said they were preparing a statement on Martinelly’s deportation case, but it had not been released at press time.

Corey Stewart, chairman of the Prince William Board of Supervisors, called the nun’s death “appalling.“

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/illegal-alien-with-multiple-duis-kills-nun-and-injures-others-while-on-bond-awaiting-deportation-he/question-1131865/

 

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Jesse Montanye was target practicing outside his home near Braham, Minnesota when his .22-calbier pistol jammed.


He brought the gun inside to try and fix it and unintentionally discharged the gun.


The bullet hit his 11-year-old daughter, Maddy, in the head.



http://www.kare11.com/news/article/920200/391/Girl-accidently-shot-by-dad-remains-critical

 

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64-year-old Claude Hawkins, of Jackson, Mississippi had taken his two young grandchildren to look at horses.


When they returned to his Jeep his five-year-old granddaughter climbed in first.


Then his four-year-old grandson jumped in the back seat.


The little boy landed on a rifle that was stored in the back seat.


The rifle discharged, shooting the little girl.


They rushed to Central Mississippi Medical Center where the girl was pronounced dead.





http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20110508/NEWS/110508015/5-year-old-dies-after-accidental-shooting-Jackson

Idaho man guilty of misleading reservation police

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A man who lied to police to avoid the prospect of child endangerment charges now faces punishment for giving a false statement.

Heath Dixey of Fort Hall, Idaho, will be sentenced on Aug. 3 in U.S. District Court in Pocatello.

It all started on July 28, 2010, as Fort Hall police were investigating the case of a man who appeared to have been pushed from a moving car.

Dixey acknowledged pushing the man from the vehicle.

When he was later charged with assault, however, Dixey changed his story drastically.

The 34-year-old father now claimed that his young 2-year-old child had inadvertently put the car in gear, causing the man to be struck.

Dixey says he lied to keep people from knowing he'd left his child unattended in the car..

http://www.idahopress.com/news/state/article_ccc7a964-e791-5432-a08c-27d44e6f08f6.html

 

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On Saturday afternoon a 9-year-old Birmingham, Alabama girl was leaving a neighborhood store with her father when they stepped in the middle of a fight.


32-year-old Jeffery Matthews was attempting to shoot another man but the bullet struck the little girl instead.





http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/e584c6768a474b6591362b2e3f56ea70/AL--Girl-Shot-Alabama/

 

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Charles Jack of Girard, Kansas was in his yard gardening Saturday morning when he was struck with a bullet.


Sheriffs discovered Jack's neighbors, William McManis and Carla Jackett had been target shooting with a .40-caliber handgun.


They were shooting into a piece of plywood that was placed in front of a small bale of hay.


They hadn't realized that one of the bullets had traveled the 3/10 of a mile south and hit their neighbor…



http://www.morningsun.net/newsnow/x855740863/Sheriffs-department-investigates-accidental-shooting

Child struck by SUV on Masseth Street

A young girl was struck by an SUV Thursday evening on the city's west side. Police say the eight-year-old girl was hit on Masseth Street near Rugraff Street just after 5:30 p.m.

News 10NBC is told the girl ran out from between parked cars and the driver of the SUV never saw her. The girl's parents were nearby when it happened.

The driver of the SUV was not injured and not arrested or ticketed by police.

The girl is currently in satisfactory condition at Strong Hospital.

http://www.whec.com/news/stories/s2076772.shtml

 

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A 23-year-old man from Tonganoxie, Kansas had gone outside to relax after drinking a few beers with his girlfriend.


His roommates said they heard three gunshots but weren't alarmed because the man regularly fires his handgun in the backyard at night.


Then the man came back in the house, seeking help.


He had unintentionally shot himself in the head.


The bullet from the .45-caliber pistol entered below his chin and exited at the top of his forehead.




http://www.leavenworthtimes.com/newsnow/x855735910/Deputies-respond-to-accidental-shooting

Drunk Driver Causes Rollover Crash

A 22-year-old man was cited for drunk driving and other charges after a single-car rollover crash that injured him and his female passenger, according to an OSP press release.

On August 12, 2010, around 1:55 AM, a car driven by Ryan J. Porter, 22, of West Linn, Oregon, was northbound on I-205 in the West Linn area, when it rolled over, coming to rest on its side. An unidentified female passenger was extricated using the Jaws of Life. Both she and Porter had serious but non-life threatening injuries, and were transported to OHSU for treatment.

http://www.portlandpersonalinjuryaccidentlawyer.com/blog/general/drunk-driver-causes-rollover-crash-oregon-car-accident-lawyers/

 

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59-year-old Terry Jones, the minister of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida was in Michigan trying to put together an anti-Muslim rally.


Jones gained national recognition for threatening to burn the Quran on the anniversary of 9/11.


Jones was getting in the passenger side of his car after giving an interview at a Southfield, Michigan television studio, when his .40-caliber Taurus handgun unintentionally discharged.





http://www.freep.com/article/20110422/NEWS02/110422012/Police-Terry-Jones-accidentally-fired-gun-Southfield-TV-station-parking-lot

 

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26-year-old Cody Schara, of Reedsburg, Wisconsin unintentionally shot himself in the hand while handling a handgun in his home at 3 a.m.


The bullet damaged a fingertip and went through his left hand below the pinky finger.


Preliminary breath tests produced a 0.12 blood-alcohol level…





http://www.wiscnews.com/reedsburgtimespress/news/article_5c9dd758-7335-11e0-97c9-001cc4c03286.html

Alleged drunken driver runs over himself

SANTA FE, N.M. — A 21-year-old man was accused of driving drunk and leading police on a chase that finally ended with him running over himself.

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..The man was treated for minor injuries at a Santa Fe hospital and booked in to the Sandoval County detention center on charges of aggravated driving while intoxicated, fleeing a police officer, careless driving and two other outstanding traffic warrants.

A tip to the state's DrunkBuster hot line Sunday afternoon alerted authorities to a possibly drunken driver.

State Police Officer Grace Romero spotted the man's pickup truck swerving across both lanes of a highway, driving slowly and then fast. He refused to stop.

After narrowly missing other vehicles, police said the suspect drove through a ditch and a barbed-wire fence before stopping. He tried to put the truck into park, but it ended up in reverse.

Police said the man fell from his open door and both of his legs were run over by the front driver's side tire.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27916378/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/alleged-drunken-driver-runs-over-himself/

 

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18-year-old Michale Marin of Vero Beach, Florida was hanging out at his apartment on a Friday night with friends.


He started telling them about his new 9mm handgun. He had the gun a few weeks, but hadn't fired it yet.


Marin brought the gun out, showing off how it worked, passing it around.


When he took the gun back, thinking the safety was on, he squeezed the trigger.


The gun fired.


The bullet hit his friend, passing through his abdomen and intestines.






http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2011/apr/20/no-headline---tc_ir_teenshot_folo/

 

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A 78-year-old Plant City, Florida man told police he had a bad dream and that when he woke up he discovered he had been shot.


The man, who police have not identified, sleeps with a loaded Smith & Wesson .357 handgun under his pillow for protection.


He unintentionally shot himself while sleeping…



http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/region_east_hillsborough/plant_city/plant-city-man-who-sleeps-with-a-gun-under-his-pillow-for-safety-accidentally-shot-off-his-fingertip

Moses Lake woman fleeing police runs over self


Police say a woman trying to flee police in Moses Lake accidentally ran over herself.

An officer contacted the woman Monday at a business and told her she was wanted on a forgery arrest warrant.

The 40-year-old woman started to drive off with the officer following her when she tried to exit the moving vehicle. She was run over by the same vehicle she had been driving.

She was airlifted to a Seattle hospital with internal injuries.

http://www.theolympian.com/2011/01/26/1520337/moses-lake-woman-fleeing-police.html

 

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21-year-old Kyle Labrosse, an active-duty Army soldier stationed in Anchorage, Alaska, was cleaning his .45-caliber handgun, preparing to go to the shooting range, when he unintentionally discharged the gun.


The bullet hit his wife, passing through her breast, and then proceeded through the floor of the apartment and into the apartment below.


Steven Brawn was sitting on his couch, watching TV when the bullet landed on a chair about six feet away.


"It was pretty simultaneous, the sound and the bullet," Brawn said. "It had slowed down enough where I could kind of see it out of the corner of my eye."


Kyle's father called the police to report the shooting. When the police entered Kyle's apartment they found military camouflage clothing on the floor, a number of weapons in the living room and an expended .45 cartridge.


Fearing the accident would jeopardize his military career, Kyle and his wife had left the apartment before the police arrived and had called police and made up a story about being victims of an armed robbery.





http://www.adn.com/2011/04/18/1816710/soldier-wounds-wife-while-cleaning.html

 

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A McKinney, Texas homeowner is in critical condition in Parkland Memorial Hospital after being shot with his own gun while confronting burglars in his home.


http://www.scntx.com/articles/2011/04/28/news_update/717.txt

Chalmette man opens fire, thwarts vehicle burglary(LA)

Two young men trying to burglarize a truck in Chalmette got the worst of it when one got his arm rolled over by the getaway driver and the other was shot at by the owner of the vehicle, St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy James Pohlmann said.

Both men escaped in a gray Dodge following the 7 p.m. incident Wednesday night in the 2300 block Corinne Drive. The truck's owner, who came outside of his home with a handgun when he saw someone climbing into his vehicle, told deputies he thought he hit the driver of the getaway car when he fired twice after the driver allegedly pointed a gun at him, authorities said.

No residents of the neighborhood were injured.

The burglar who was trying to break into the truck ran toward the getaway vehicle when he saw the gun-wielding owner. As he tried to climb into the moving can, the suspect fell to the ground and his right arm was rolled over by the car's right rear tire, authorities said.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2709445/posts

 

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Two brothers, Pretson and Phillip Wilson, were visiting 60-year-old Darrell Laffoon at his home in Beaverton, Oregon.


An argument over a cell phone started between the brothers.


Laffoon decided to break up the fight by pulling out his 9mm handgun.


A struggle over the gun ensued and the gun discharged. Both brothers were struck by the bullet.






http://www.oregonlive.com/beaverton/index.ssf/2011/04/beaverton_police_arrest_60-year-old_man_in_connection_with_shooting_that_injured_two_brothers.html

 

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Troy Bailey, of Miramar, Florida called 911 seeking help.


He told the dispatcher that his two-and-a-half year old son had grabbed his 9mm Glock semi-automatic handgun and shot his mother, 33-year-old Julia Bennett.


"Oh God, I can't believe this," Bailey said. "He shot his mom. God in heaven, help me please." Julia died before emergency help arrived.



http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/26/11-reveals-toddler-reportedly-shot-killed-mom/

Milky Bar kid, three, drives into parked police car

Police officers were left stunned when they saw a car crash into their parked vehicle - and discovered that a three-year-old boy was responsible.

Oliver Willment-Coster was left strapped into the passenger seat of the white Proton by his father, Jeffrey who went into a shop to buy his son a Milky Bar.

But the youngster managed to take the car out of gear, release the handbrake, then steer 15 yards down the road. He came to a sudden stop when the car smashed into the police vehicle.

Mr Coster became aware of the incident only when a police officer entered the shop and asked: "Does anyone have a white car?"

The 54-year-old lorry driver ran from the store in Bournemouth, Dorset, and found his son unharmed and sitting in the passenger seat with the belt still around him.

All the boy said was: "Have you got my Milky Bar?" Mr Coster said he would never leave his son in the car again. "It is what thousands of parents do every day. I never thought he would be able to take the handbrake off."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1505417/Milky-Bar-kid-three-drives-into-parked-police-car.html