A man in Los Angeles is dead after he accidentally shot himself in the eye at a party while drunk early Monday morning.
A group of people were drinking at a home when police say “a handgun joins a party,” according to The Los Angeles TImes.
“It’s basically, ‘I have a nice gun. Do you guys want to take a look at it?’” Lt. Perry Griffith told the Times.
Witnesses said that the gun owner apparently became nervous as the drunk partygoers passed the gun around, and tried to take it away as it made its way to one partygoer.
“It’s basically, ‘No, I got it.’ And the gun goes off,” Griffith said, referring to how the partygoer was shot.
The gun owner was taken into the police for questioning and the incident is currently under investigation.
