Recall the recent police alert (it circulated on the 5D listserv and I posted it here)regarding a shooting near 16th & Raum? As originally described the incident went something like this:
-man wearing black Northface jacket and ski mask enters home through the rear door that opens to the alley;
-masked man finds woman in the house and shoots her in the face;
-masked man flees through the back door leaving woman conscious, but bleeding;
-police arrive.
This description deeply troubled a lot of people I know because (a) it's disturbing to think of someone being shot in the face and lying there bleeding until the police arrive, and (b) this description sounds like it could be a home invasion robbery gone wrong. Shootings do occur, but usually the people shot in Trinidad know each other and have some kind of beef, or it's a domestic disturbance incident. You don't get a lot of cases where it seems like you might be at significant risk just by being in your home. so it was pretty scary to read about this.
As it turns out, the masked man in a Northface jacket was a fabrication. The real story involved a teenage boy (I think he was 15) who was playing with a gun and accidentally shot his girlfriend in the face. If this sounds oddly familiar to you that's probably because the same thing happened a couple of months ago in SE and it made the papers because it lead to the recovery of the missing gun from the Deonte Rawlins shooting.
Obviously a young woman was still shot in the face (she lived and is recovering), but I'm much happier to know that this was an accidental shooting, than to believe there might be some masked robber out there who shoots in the face when he finds you at home.
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The Four Rules of Gun Safety
RULE I: ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED
RULE II: NEVER POINT A GUN AT ANYTHING YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DESTROY
RULE III: KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER UNTIL YOUR SIGHTS ARE ON THE TARGET
RULE IV: BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET AND WHAT'S BEYOND IT.
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