Fresno Deputy Dies In Negligent Discharge Shooting

By Bob Owens

Ugh.

A Fresno County Sheriff’s deputy died Monday afternoon after he was accidentally shot, the sheriff’s office said.

Authorities said a gun accidentally went off at a business park near Clinton and Winery Avenues around 3:45 p.m., wounding the deputy. The typically quiet business park turned solemn as deputies swarmed the scene, trying to piece together a shooting that killed one of their own.

After pulling up to a building in east-central Fresno, authorities learned a deputy had been shot when a gun accidentally discharged. The victim was rushed to Community Regional Medical Center and died shortly after.

Few things are more frustrating to me than negligent discharge deaths, and especially the sort of shooting we appear to have here. While details have been kept deliberately vague, the general scenario fits the profile of an officer fiddling with his or her gun, then having a negligent discharge into the lower abdomen (below the body armor) to mid-thigh area and striking an artery.

I’m not sure if the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department equips their officers with individual patrol officer kits (IPOKs) designed to stop hemorrhages, but even if they do, there’s no guarantee that the wound was in an area where …Read the Rest

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