Man Shoots Self and Daughter During Physical Therapy

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Another good guy with a gun manages to shoot himself and his 12-year old daughter as they were attending a physical therapy session in Fairbanks, Alaska. It seems dad’s gun accidentally discharged as he was taking it out of a holster and putting it in a jacket pocket.  No doubt he carried a gun out of fear of a stampeding moose.

A man accidentally shot himself and his daughter when he gun discharged while they were at physical therapy.   (Shutterstock)
A man accidentally shot himself and his daughter when he gun discharged while they were at physical therapy. (Shutterstock)

The man, a corrections officer, not a police officer and not someone who needs to carry a gun as part of his job, is not being named by the News Miner.  He was packing a .40-caliber pistol that went off; the bullet passed through his forearm, grazed the right thigh of his 12-year-old daughter, then hit her left thigh. She was operated on and released the next day; she had been in physical therapy to strengthen her leg so that she could play volleyball after a knee sprain.

It goes without saying those plans are now on hold for next year. “She doesn’t hate her daddy,” says the girl’s mother, “but she’s going to need to work through some things as time goes by. I know he’s going to be right there helping her.” He could face one count of reckless endangerment.

This is another example of people carrying guns with rounds in the chamber and the safety off.  On duty police officers need to carry their weapons in this fashion but there is little need to do so when carrying off-duty.

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9 years ago

Carrying with a round in the chamber is recklessly dangerous. A corrections officer has no need to carry a weapon when off-duty in any case. That’s another instance of macho at work.

The holster was the correct, safest place for the weapon, not a coat pocket.

No safety rules are taught to corrections officers?

Reply to  James Smith
9 years ago

I agree. Like I mentioned police officers are trained to do so, primarily because they often don’t have the time to chamber a round in all circumstances. Some jurisdictions, like Florida, train corrections officers in the use of firearms, and, in some cases, the initial course is 40 hrs and is the same as a certified law enforcement officer, but since they don’t carry weapons they are not taught to keep a round in the chamber with the safety off. As you said this is another instance of macho at work.

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