An Evanston, Ill. man fatally shot himself Sunday night while showing off a shotgun he thought wasn’t loaded to a group of friends, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Police were called to an Evanston home for an accidental shooting. They found Eric Zyzanski on the floor with a shotgun wound to the head, lying next to the shotgun.
He was taken to the hospital and died about two hours later, according to police.
According to witnesses, Zyzanski was in his apartment with friends, where he took out a shotgun and “began showing it off.”
His friends told him to put the gun away, so he proceeded to take two or three rounds out of the gun, according to police. He then pointed the gun at his cheek, said the gun was empty and pulled the trigger, witnesses said.
All witnesses gave a similar account of the shooting, police told the Sun-Times. Police scheduled the autopsy for Monday.
And his friends saw this? I can’t imagine…
Thinning the herd
hell of a time to be wrong…
This is a very grim subject but there are some examples of very black humor TPM has chronicled on the subject of gun carelessness, such as the guy in Tennessee who went to put on his pants and the gun he kept in the pocket went off and shot him in the ass, or the guy in Georgia who was holstering his gun and shot himself in the dick.
There are others and I have kept track of the all. Around New Years, I will hold a contest where you can vote as to which one is the most ludicrous. My challenge will be picking only five.
Go for the 5 from Texas.