Police Officer Shot Through Neighbor’s Wall With Rifle: “A Wall In Our Apartment Exploded”
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 10 months ago
HOLLY HILL, Fla. – A bullet struck an apartment of a Holly Hill family getting ready for the day on Wednesday.
The bullet came from the rifle of an officer, according to a police report.
Police said around 6:40 a.m. Wednesday officers responded to the Charleston House Apartments in reference to a suspicious incident.
A renter told officers he believed someone shot into his apartment because of a large hole in the wall and the plaster and wood on the floor, according to police.
Investigators said there was a hole in the wall above a door frame in the northeast bedroom of the apartment.
Two kids were in the bedroom getting ready to go to school, according to the report.
“Yeah, my wife was home. She was up, she was getting our kids ready for school and then like a wall in our apartment exploded,” he told a dispatcher.
The dispatcher asked him why it took an hour to call authorities.
“She just told me. She had to get the kids up and to the school bus before it left and she just got back,” he said.
A Holly Hill officer lives above the apartment and he told police he was attempting to move a rifle, according to the incident report.
He told police he was walking with the rifle and must have had his finger inside the trigger guard, according to investigators.
Investigators said he told police he tripped on something and the rifle discharged.
Police said there aren’t criminal charges and the officer was off duty.
The officer is still on regular patrols, according to police.
The department will do a review of the situation, according to investigators.
Yea, that’s important information for a dispatcher to know: ” … why it took an hour to call authorities.” Not why some dumb ass discharged a round through an apartment wall.
50,000 guns in Richmond, Virginia, not even a single negligent discharge. One cop with a rifle, a hole in a neighbor’s wall
The best part is that “The officer is still on regular patrols.” Well good. We wouldn’t want a cop to go without work, even if he does occasionally kill neighbors by leaving rounds in the chamber, the muzzle pointed in the wrong direction, and the rifle laying where it can be knocked around.
Then again, there’s always the possibility that he didn’t knock it around. Sympathetic muscle reflect might have caused him to pull the trigger when he tripped. In this case, that’s another rule of gun safety he violated.
On January 30, 2020 at 8:08 am, Longbow said:
“Police said there aren’t criminal charges and the officer was off duty.
The officer is still on regular patrols, according to police.
The department will do a review of the situation, according to investigators.”
The Police will investigate the Police and find the Police did no wrong… according to the Police. Yep, there will be a thorough investigation followed by a first class exoneration!
The Vast Majority strikes again.
On January 30, 2020 at 8:09 am, Longbow said:
On another note. When I was contracting in Iraq, if a company employee had an ND, he was sent home… and I mean right fuckin’ now.
On January 30, 2020 at 8:09 am, Fred said:
Modern firearms don’t just “discharge” when you trip on something.
On January 30, 2020 at 6:39 pm, X said:
I’ll tell you what… if one us badge-less “deplorables” had an ND into the neighbor’s apartment we’d be under arrest for reckless endangerment, not out on patrol.
On a related note… we are constantly told that “assault weapons” are “weapons of war” and “don’t belong on the streets of America.”
If that’s so, then why do the cops have them?
Who are the cops “at war” with?
Who are the cops “assaulting” with those “assault weapons”?