Wounded Deputy Shot With His Own Firearm

By Tom Knighton

I’m not a law enforcement officer, but I have to believe that investigating reports of poaching have to be among the tensest things an officer can do. After all, poachers are, by definition, armed. They’re armed and already breaking the law, which means they’re probably not law-abiding.

Now, imagine you get shot while doing such an investigation. What’s your first instinct going to be?

Probably that the poacher you’re investigating shot you.

Well, for a Texas sheriff’s deputy, that wasn’t the case.

A Parker County deputy was shot with his own gun on Monday and was not ambushed by an illegal hunter, Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler says.

Investigators initially believed Deputy Jarrett Turner was shot by a hunter while investigating a complaint about poaching on private property along Cattlebaron Road.

The investigation found Turner was shot by his own backup gun, which malfunctioned, Fowler said. Turner was shot in the foot and was treated and released from a Fort Worth hospital.

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“This investigation has led us down several avenues,” Fowler said. “This incident was not an accidental discharge. It was a weapons malfunction from a concealed backup weapon which was secured and holstered on his person.”

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Source:: Bearing Arms