LAPD Instructor Shoots Colleague During Training
- From: Bo Raxo <crimenewscenter@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:51:02 -0000
He pulled a real Cheney on this one.
Bo Raxo
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lapd28jun28,0,6909975.story?
Los Angeles police are investigating how a veteran department firearms
instructor shot and wounded another officer in the left hamstring at a
training facility this week when he mistook a loaded handgun for a
mock version of the weapon.
The incident occurred about 4 p.m. Monday at the Edward M. Davis
Training Facility in Granada Hills as the two instructors, who train
new recruits, were transitioning from teaching a class with live
firearms to an exercise using mock handguns that look and sound like
real weapons but do not discharge bullets.
Parts of the non-firing weapons are marked with orange paint, but the
instructor failed to notice he had picked up the wrong handgun, police
said.
The bullet struck Officer Peter Lee, 42, a 15-year veteran. The gun
was fired accidentally by Hector Villanueva, 35.
"Unfortunately what occurred violated protocols," said Capt. Bill
Murphy, head of the Los Angeles Police Department's Training Division.
"When an officer picks up the [non-firing] weapons they are supposed
to secure their live firearms. But one officer here didn't secure his
live firearm and confused it. When he went to test the [mock] weapon
he instead fired his real Glock and hit his fellow instructor."
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