Man Killed By Gun Range Employee Due To Negligent Discharge

By CN Staff

By Dan Zimmerman via The Truth About Guns

A customer of a Cypress, Texas shooting range was shot and killed this morning when a range employee, who was reportedly working on a hunting rifle, discharged the gun, sending a round through a building wall and striking the unidentified customer as he was walking across the parking lot.

As click2houston.com reports, this morning’s pre-Christmas tragedy happened at the Hot Wells Shooting Range northwest of Houston.

(Harris County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sr. Deputy Thomas) Gilliland said the single shot hit and killed a 36-year-old customer who had just pulled up at the hunting rangenear the intersection of the Northwest Freeway and Barker Cypress Road. …

An employee at the shooting range told KPRC 2 that the man was hit in the head.

He was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Anyone see the problem here?

“Homicide will investigate all of the employees, witnesses (and) take control of the weapon. That weapon will be investigated also to find out if there’s anything wrong with it; if there was a malfunction, or if it was human error,” Gilliland said. …

“The main focus will be was …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation