A bullet.
"Hug at Detroit birthday party proves deadly" Associated Press, July 10, 2012
DETROIT — The death of a woman shot in the chest after she hugged an off-duty police officer from behind during a party is a tragic, unfathomable accident, Detroit’s police chief said Monday.
Adaisha Miller was dancing and celebrating what would have been her 25th birthday the next day, when she hugged the officer from behind during a party Sunday, her mother and authorities said. She died later of gunshot wounds to the chest.
Police Chief Ralph Godbee told reporters at a news conference her death is an unfathomable accident and the officer is very remorseful.
‘‘We are profoundly sad at their loss,’’ he said, referring to Miller’s family.
Godbee said the gun was in a waist holster made of soft material, which would have allowed the trigger to be activated.
He said there is no evidence the officer fired the gun, and he believes the gun discharged after Miller hugged the officer from behind during a party at the officer’s home.
‘‘There was some manipulation along the officer’s waistline [that] he did not control,’’ Godbee told reporters....
Why was he armed at a party?
Police union lawyer John Goldpaugh said the officer did not know Miller.
‘‘This was just a freak accident,’’ Goldpaugh told the Detroit Free Press. ‘‘They were having a party and the next thing, a woman is dead. He’s devastated by what happened.’’
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Her mother, Yolanda McNair, said the shooting never should have happened....
I agree.
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Related:
"An Iraq war veteran suspected of killing his former girlfriend and her pregnant sister in Michigan fatally shot himself in a remote West Virginia cabin after seeing investigators closing in, authorities said Wednesday."
That's what the cops would say even if they killed him.
"A 39-year-old house guest has been charged with murder, accused of killing his former girlfriend and her new partner who had been hosting him, dismembering their bodies, and dumping them in a river."
Time to dump this post.
