Roland Toney

An 11-year old died in a gun accident in Texarkana, Texas today. His death marks the second time this week that a Texas pre-teen died in an accidental shooting. In both incidents, a boy was using a gun belonging to an older sibling. Roland Toney, the boy shot in the Texarkana incident, had taken his …

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2022

Derrick Curtis, an alderman in Southwest Chicago, Illinois, shot himself in the wrist today while cleaning a gun. He is in good condition at the hospital.

And in Salem Township, Minnesota, an unidentified 70-year-old man shot himself in the leg, also while cleaning a gun. According to the report, a police deputy applied a tourniquet, as the man’s pant leg was soaked with blood, and it was beginning to pool on the ground below him. The man told the deputy he thought “he had unloaded a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun in order to clean it but had not realized there was a bullet in the chamber. The gun went off when he pulled the slide back.

Sources:

“Chicago Alderman Accidentally Shoots Himself While Cleaning Gun, Police Say,” Fox 32 Chicago (October 18, 2022).

“Salem Township Man Shoots Self in Leg,” kaaltv.com (October 19, 2022).

Shattered – The Gun Accident Journal

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2020