Posted October 20, 2017 10:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Negligent discharges happen. They shouldn’t but they do. Often, they seem to happen to the people who should know better. People like police officers, gunsmiths, firearm instructors, and so on.

One Chicagoland judge found his life flipped upside down after what appears to have been a negligent discharge on his part.

Circuit Judge Patrick O’Shea, 67, of Wheaton, was arrested Friday after a warrant was issued for the Sept. 15 incident, according to a statement from the Wheaton Police Department.

On Monday, DuPage County Circuit Court Chief Judge Kathryn Creswell issued a statement saying the circuit court’s executive committee removed O’Shea “from all judicial duties until further order of the court,” according to a copy of the statement.

He has also been stripped of his unrestricted access to the courthouse and will be escorted by security officers in the event that he has court-related business, according to the statement.

According to a source familiar with the case, the incident was not reported to police until about two weeks after it occurred.

Residents in another unit in the building in which O’Shea lives found a hole in their unit. They suspected it may have been a bullet hole, but did not report …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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