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Detective injured during gun training
May 31, 2008
A Spokane County sheriff's detective shot himself in the leg while training with a new gun Friday at Medical Lake.
The Sheriff's Office is switching from Smith and Wesson guns to Glock .45-caliber semiautomatics, which require different holsters. Personnel were training at a gravel pit, said sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Dave Reagan.
During a "rock and lock" exercise in which they draw their pistols, point at a target and re-holster without taking their eyes off the target, the detective missed his holster and fired a single bullet into his upper right leg about 2:30 p.m., Reagan said.
"He expressed in no uncertain terms that this was a painful injury," he said.
Reagan declined to identity the detective but said he's a 20-year veteran.
He was taken by ambulance to a Spokane hospital, where he was expected to undergo surgery to remove the bullet.
"It was just one of those accidental things," Reagan said. "I'm sure he's very embarrassed."
Meghann M. Cun
Detective injured during gun training
May 31, 2008
A Spokane County sheriff's detective shot himself in the leg while training with a new gun Friday at Medical Lake.
The Sheriff's Office is switching from Smith and Wesson guns to Glock .45-caliber semiautomatics, which require different holsters. Personnel were training at a gravel pit, said sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Dave Reagan.
During a "rock and lock" exercise in which they draw their pistols, point at a target and re-holster without taking their eyes off the target, the detective missed his holster and fired a single bullet into his upper right leg about 2:30 p.m., Reagan said.
"He expressed in no uncertain terms that this was a painful injury," he said.
Reagan declined to identity the detective but said he's a 20-year veteran.
He was taken by ambulance to a Spokane hospital, where he was expected to undergo surgery to remove the bullet.
"It was just one of those accidental things," Reagan said. "I'm sure he's very embarrassed."
Meghann M. Cun