Accidental shooting injures police officer.Byline: Rebecca Nolan The Register-Guard A Eugene police SWAT officer was shot in the foot Monday when another officer's gun accidentally discharged at the home of a suspected drug dealer, police officials said. A bullet from a SWAT 9mm long gun went through the injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. officer's foot shortly before 6 a.m., police Capt. Pete Kerns Kerns is a municipality in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland. It has a population of c. 5,200. said. "This is what I would classify clas·si·fy tr.v. clas·si·fied, clas·si·fy·ing, clas·si·fies 1. To arrange or organize according to class or category. 2. To designate (a document, for example) as confidential, secret, or top secret. as an industrial accident for law enforcement," Kerns said. "This was not a friendly fire incident, but a mechanical failure or an error on the part of the person carrying the gun." The department's violent crimes unit was investigating. The officers' names were not released. The department's vice narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. unit had asked SWAT to help serve a search warrant at a home on North Danebo Avenue near Barger Drive. Detectives suspected that a man with a history of weapon possession was dealing drugs from the home, Kerns said. SWAT officers entered the house, rounded up the occupants and searched for any hazards, Kerns said. They were preparing to hand the scene over to detectives when the shooting occurred. Apparently, three SWAT officers assigned to cover the backyard of the home were climbing a fence to get out. One of the officers' guns fired and hit the other officer. Paramedics already were on scene and immediately came to the injured officer's aid, Kerns said. The officer was taken to the hospital for treatment. Kerns said the department would not release the injured officer's name because he has a large family that needed to be notified of the accident. The officer has been with the department for nearly three years. The officer whose gun discharged is a "veteran police officer," Kerns said. His name was withheld because he is the subject of an internal investigation, the captain said. Monday was that officer's regular day off, and he will be allowed to return to work as scheduled. "It is not a standard of ours in cases of accidental discharges Accidental discharge is the event of a firearm discharging (firing) at a time not intended by the user. Perhaps most commonly, accidental discharges (sometimes called ADs by military and police personnel and referred to as negligent discharges by several armies) occur when the to place officers on administrative leave," Kerns said. SWAT officers are among any police department's most highly trained and skilled officers, and as a result such accidental shootings are rare, Kerns said. However, in Eugene, the last accidental shooting of one officer by another occurred in 2001, when a SWAT sniper See sniping software. mistook another SWAT officer, Sgt. Jay Shadwick, for an armed suspect and shot him once in the chest while responding to an attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. in Creswell. Shadwick survived and returned to work six months later. An investigation found no negligence negligence, in law, especially tort law, the breach of an obligation (duty) to act with care, or the failure to act as a reasonable and prudent person would under similar circumstances. on the part of the sniper, officer Ted Williams, or his spotter, officer Jud Warden WARDEN. A guardian; a keeper. This is the name given to various officers: as, the warden of the prison; the wardens of the port of Philadelphia; church wardens. . Once investigators establish the facts of Monday's shooting, the department will evaluate whether additional training or weaponry changes are necessary, Kerns said. |
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