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Like Forrest Gump says...
Stupid is as stupid does.
I guess he wasn't to concerned about over penetration when he chose his ammo.
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091215/GJNEWS_01/712159963
Dover man shoots self in hand, is charged with reckless conduct
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
DOVER — A local man has been charged with a felony after a bullet he fired from his handgun traveled through his hand, the walls of his apartment and then into the bedroom of a neighboring apartment.
No one inside the neighboring apartment was hurt but police allege that Jeffrey Dewing's recklessness put his neighbors in danger.
The incident happened at around 2 a.m. on Dec. 4.
Police Lt. Dave Terlemezian said police and fire were called to Dewing's residence at 84 Tideview Drive, a condominium complex, for a report of a man who shot himself in the hand. When police arrived at the residence they met with Dewing and saw the gunshot wound on his left hand.
Terlemezian said the bullet entered the palm of Dewing's left hand and then exited through the top of his wrist. Dewing, 52, was taken to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital for treatment.
During subsequent investigation police tracked where the bullet from the gun traveled and determined that it had traveled through one wall in the apartment into another room within the apartment and then into another wall that led to a neighboring apartment.
Terlemezian said the bullet finally came to a rest in a bedroom ceiling of that apartment about 41⁄2 feet above a bed that a couple was sleeping in.
"My understanding was they heard something that night but was not aware of the bullet until the next day when they saw it," Terlemezian said. "They were shocked."
Officers talked to the couple the next day and told them about what had happened.
Dewing later told officers that he was both messing around with the gun and dismantling it for cleaning, according to Terlemezian. Terlemezian said Dewing was intoxicated when he was doing this and claimed that he didn't know the gun was loaded.
Police investigated the incident for more than a week and arrested Dewing on Monday, charging him with reckless conduct.
"Obviously his failure to use care when handling a firearm, as well as his level of intoxication, clearly makes this a reckless act," Terlemezian said. "The danger, which speaks for itself, caused serious injury to himself and could've caused serious injury or death to his neighbors."
Terlemezian said one other person was in the apartment when Dewing fired the gun but was downstairs and not in danger. He said that person placed the 911 call about Dewing's injury.
Dewing is currently free on $5,000 personal recognizance bail and is scheduled for arraignment at Dover District Court on Jan. 15. Reckless conduct in a Class B felony punishable by up to 31⁄2 to 7 years in prison.
Stupid is as stupid does.
I guess he wasn't to concerned about over penetration when he chose his ammo.
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091215/GJNEWS_01/712159963
Dover man shoots self in hand, is charged with reckless conduct
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
DOVER — A local man has been charged with a felony after a bullet he fired from his handgun traveled through his hand, the walls of his apartment and then into the bedroom of a neighboring apartment.
No one inside the neighboring apartment was hurt but police allege that Jeffrey Dewing's recklessness put his neighbors in danger.
The incident happened at around 2 a.m. on Dec. 4.
Police Lt. Dave Terlemezian said police and fire were called to Dewing's residence at 84 Tideview Drive, a condominium complex, for a report of a man who shot himself in the hand. When police arrived at the residence they met with Dewing and saw the gunshot wound on his left hand.
Terlemezian said the bullet entered the palm of Dewing's left hand and then exited through the top of his wrist. Dewing, 52, was taken to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital for treatment.
During subsequent investigation police tracked where the bullet from the gun traveled and determined that it had traveled through one wall in the apartment into another room within the apartment and then into another wall that led to a neighboring apartment.
Terlemezian said the bullet finally came to a rest in a bedroom ceiling of that apartment about 41⁄2 feet above a bed that a couple was sleeping in.
"My understanding was they heard something that night but was not aware of the bullet until the next day when they saw it," Terlemezian said. "They were shocked."
Officers talked to the couple the next day and told them about what had happened.
Dewing later told officers that he was both messing around with the gun and dismantling it for cleaning, according to Terlemezian. Terlemezian said Dewing was intoxicated when he was doing this and claimed that he didn't know the gun was loaded.
Police investigated the incident for more than a week and arrested Dewing on Monday, charging him with reckless conduct.
"Obviously his failure to use care when handling a firearm, as well as his level of intoxication, clearly makes this a reckless act," Terlemezian said. "The danger, which speaks for itself, caused serious injury to himself and could've caused serious injury or death to his neighbors."
Terlemezian said one other person was in the apartment when Dewing fired the gun but was downstairs and not in danger. He said that person placed the 911 call about Dewing's injury.
Dewing is currently free on $5,000 personal recognizance bail and is scheduled for arraignment at Dover District Court on Jan. 15. Reckless conduct in a Class B felony punishable by up to 31⁄2 to 7 years in prison.
I hope he gets the seven.