DA Investigator Accidentally Shoots Self
in Courthouse Bathroom

Target practice. She was aiming for her foot.

FTA: “It was an accidental shooting, so there is no intent to commit a crime.” Lucky for her that she did not qualify for the Republican irrebuttable presumption of criminal intent.

Just practicing accidental shootings in case the trial goes badly for them. Suicides have lost their panache since the epstein kurfluffle.

I’m pretty sure that possessing a firearm inside a courthouse is a crime all by itself.

I used to work in a facility with armed guards. They had a policy of firing any guard who accidently discharged his/her weapon. It is a safety issue - anyone who can't control their gun, has no business being a "protection officer." I suspect that policy only applies to white men these days.

Girls Just Want to Have Fun! Film clip from 1977, Fun With Dick and Jane Dick: I think I ruptured myself (mishandling weapon) Jane: You realize if that thing goes off, you'll be going on this robbery half-cocked.

You just don't play with your gun in the toilet....

Shades of Jimmy Breslin's book: "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight"

I do not buy what they are trying to sell. I think that she is unfit to carry a weapon and should be banned from doing so.

Obviously, a graduate of the Lt. Michael Byrd School of Law Enforcement

"I’m the only one in this room, that I know of, professional enough to carry this Glock 40. I’m the only one…”

#4 makes the point that will no doubt be overlooked or ignored. Every courthouse I've entered - county or federal - has metal-detector screening prior to entry.

My alibi is air-tight.

I guess as assistant DA, she is entitled to wear her firearm inside a courtroom. I would also like to see a picture of the wounded. I doubt we will be allowed to see it. Probably dropped when she had to undress to use the facility. Also must have had the safety off when she dropped it. Safety on, it won't fire. Total incompetence and why am not surprised.

Let me guess, probably a Sig P320 variant. Guns with very light trigger pulls require a safety. Revolvers never had safeties, but they have 10-15 lb trigger pulls, and the motion is about 1/2" to 5/8", just doesn't happen accidentally. Many new design handguns have lighter triggers and no safety. The Sig P320 seems to be one of the worst of these for negligent discharges, but the Glocks, similarly with no safety (only a trigger deal, which is easily pushed back) also have had a lot of negligent discharges. Typically, the poorly trained person puts a trigger finger into the trigger guard when they are not intending to shoot, a SERIOUS safety violation in itself, and then they insert the gun into the holster. Holster edge pushes improperly located finger, and finger pulls trigger.....BANG. Gun training must stress intensely that your finger is ALWAYS outside, completely outside, the trigger guard except at the moment of firing.....and then immediately back out unless you are taking a series of shots. We used to call these "accidental discharges", but now they are more correctly called "negligent discharges"....because they aren't accidents, they are errors in training and procedure.

Wow, # 15 has figured out what handgun was involved and how the ND actually occurred-all with virtually no such information in the article. Amazing psychic forensic analysis.

Re #15. It’s why I have a ..38 S&W J-Frame in the console of my car. If I have to grab it quick, I don’t have to worry about shooting my foot off. My carry gun is a .380. I know, a “mouse gun” but it’s better to have it on me than that .45 I left at home because it was heavy and cumbersome. The .380 is also DA only which layers on more safety.

she's in the handicapped bathroom...with a loaded gun....oooooooook

Re #16, these sort of negligent discharges are all too common in police departments, and they are almost always due to the same cause. Too frequently the person who did it has a rock solid claim "it went off by itself". No gun has ever gone off by itself. They go off when people make them fire....and then the embarrassed person, perhaps fearing a firing, lies about it. No psychic needed, just an experienced instructor and knowledge from inside police departments where these happen, from police instructor friends. I'm sure you were being sarcastic....but uninformed sarcasm has zero bite, it is like water off a duck's back. If we would ever get the truth, I'd bet $100 it was some very close version of what I said. The German police were so frequently shooting themselves and others with the then new Luger semi-auto pistols in the 1930s that a new kind of automatic block to the firing pin was invented just for police pistols. This is hard, historic fact. Police everywhere, for always, have been poorly trained on firearms because of budget and time limits imposed by the politicians in charge. If you want some pathos to laugh at...look up online video of the police officer showing guns to a inner city school classroom. He shoots himself in the foot this very way right in front of the class, finger in the trigger guard as he puts the gun into the holster, bang. Bullet through foot. Then, limping and bleeding, he tries hard to ignore the pain, pretend it never happened. So sad that it gets funny, even though firearms safety is never a joke.

Re #14, all modern guns are entirely "drop safe", but at least half to two thirds have no "safety" per se n(like a thumb lever safety). The little flipper in the trigger is easily pulled back if a finger or clothing gets snagged on the trigger while reholstering. Bang.

There is a Fani Willis joke in here somewhere.