Off-Duty Cop Accidentally Shoots Roommate In Head While Showing Off New Gun

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An off-duty police officer in Brandon, Mississippi accidentally shot his roommate in the head Wednesday night when he was showing the roommate a new revolver, according Mississippi’s Clarion-Ledger.

The off-duty police officer, a 28-year-old whose name was not being released by the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department, had bought the revolver earlier in the day.

“He had just purchased a new revolver that day and was showing it to his roommate, but it accidentally discharged, striking the roommate in the head,” Rankin County Chief Investigator Raymond Duke said, according to the Mississippi newspaper.

Duke said the off-duty officer was not an officer in Rankin County.

The roommate was taken to the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He was both alert and conscious and is in stable condition at the hospital, according to the sheriff’s department.

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  1. Was his name Barney Fife? Sheriff Andy told him to keep that bullet in his pocket.

  2. ““He had just purchased a new revolver that day and was showing it to his roommate, but it accidentally discharged, striking the roommate in the head,” Rankin County Chief Investigator Raymond Duke said, according to the Mississippi newspaper.”

    Gotta love that phrasing. “Accidentally discharged” all by itself, eh? And the irresponsible idiot holding it had nothing to do with it? It’s no wonder unarmed citizens can get shot 14 times by the cops- the guns make them do it!

  3. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    You can’t tell about them guns…

    They just can’t be trusted.

  4. How come off-duty police officers always have the on-duty Police speak for them? If I commit a crime, the place I work for will never speak up for me.

  5. An off-duty police officer in Brandon, Mississippi accidentally shot his roommate in the head Wednesday night

    and, FUNRA

    In a press conference reflecting on last week’s massacre in Newtown, Conn., the National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre today called on Congress to put armed law enforcement agents in every American school, insisting that guns in schools – not tougher gun laws – would most effectively protect children from school shootings.

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