Man accidentally shoots himself - twice

[Malone LaVeigh]

Couple claims shots were accident
Husband hit twice; wife arrested
By ROBIN FITZGERALD
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A Long Beach couple claims the husband accidentally shot himself while playing with a gun.

Investigators, however, believe the wife shot him.

"If the gun went off one time, that could be explained," said Police Lt. Don Bass. "Four times is questionable. It leads to suspicions."

That's why police arrested Julia M. Robinson, 23, on an aggravated domestic assault charge after the shooting Saturday around 9:15 p.m., Bass said.

Nathan Robinson, 29, remained hospitalized Monday in stable condition.

Authorities said a neighbor on Oakview Avenue called police about a domestic dispute. When officers arrived, the husband was lying in the street, suffering from two gunshot wounds, police said.

"The husband and the wife both contend he shot himself," Bass said.

The wife posted a $25,000 bail Sunday at the Harrison County jail.

Aggravated domestic assault is a felony. The penalty is up to a year in jail or up to 20 years in prison.

Bass said a preliminary investigation shows four shots were fired and the husband was struck once in the biceps of his right arm and once in his left hand.

According to Bass, the husband is right-handed.

Maybe he uses his left hand when he plays with himself, I mean with his gun.

 

[griz]

Four shots, two hits, that's beyond "oops". And did you see he was in the street. I guess she was chasing him down the road while cleaning the gun?

 

[El Tejon]

Bah! They have nothing on Indiana.

An Allen County (Fort Wayne) ME ruled that a person hit himself in the head 11 times and was thus a suicide.

 

[hksw]

Maybe he had da switch.

 

[Hot brass]

Bad shooting.

 

[Axman]

Don't you all know? The gun went crazy!!! Those danged guns do it all the time. It jump up and started firing on it's own. Darned trouble making guns.

 

[Andras]

Maybe he dropped it down the stairs...

 

[Geno]

Proof that guns, not people, are violent!

This is proof that guns, not people, are violent! I hope they prosecute that gun!

Doc2005

 

[1911Tuner]

Twice

Sounds suspicious, but accidentally shooting oneself more than once is possible.

A guy I used to know...and still would if I'd run into him...shot himself through the hand with a .32 Savage autopistol four times. Four times! It's been so long that I've forgotten the minor details, but as near as I can remember, he had just charged the gun and racked the slide to chamber the first round...had a failure to go to battery, and for some obscure reason, he placed his palm against the muzzle and pushed backward...finger on the trigger, of course. He said that when the gun fired, shock and surprise evidently caused him to keep jerking on the trigger. His brother test-fired the pistol afterward to see if a malfunction had caused it to burst-fire, but it was working perfectly.

So...Improbable, yes. But not impossible.

 

[Archie]

Any way one looks at this...

It just wasn't his day.

Is this where one points out if she were really mad she'd have shot him in the head?

 

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

I remember one story about a guy who shot himself in the shoulder with a .22 to see whether it hurt. It did. He didn't believe it would, so he did it again to make sure.

- NF

 

[Ares45]

Once in the right arm and once in the left hand. Sounds like he had his arms/hands out in a defensive or reactive posture.

On a side note...be damned if I'd lie for someone who just shot me on purpose. Wife, Mother, the Pope, I don't care.

 

[CornCod]

Typical

Typical pattern of female-on-male violence. Most men will deny being assaulted by females to assuage their sense of machismo and the women get away with it. Here, it was just too obvious and the cops probably did the right thing.

In America if a male assaults a female, the man usually goes to jail. If a female assaults a male, the man usually goes to jail. As a society we have yet to come to grips with the problem of female-on-male violence which is widespread and undereported.

 

[Axman]

On a side note...be damned if I'd lie for someone who just shot me on purpose. Wife, Mother, the Pope, I don't care.

What probably happened is she chased him with the gun, fired 4 times then regetted it while pleading for his forgiveness. He then forgave her and concocted the "accidentally shooting himself" story that she collaborated. The two other non-serious bullets were misses fired at a running target. Was alcohol involved?

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Accidentally shots at himself four times and hits twice.

Hmm.

Maybe he's taking blame because he deserved being shot.

he was in the street but that does not mean he was shot in the street.

If I beat my wife and she shot at me four times, I would run too!

[In Indiana] a person hit himself in the head 11 times and was thus a suicide.

Any kin of Billie Sol Estes or Henry Marshal?