Posted on 07/08/2015 10:04:33 AM PDT by Lazamataz
A gun belonging to a federal agent was used to kill a 32-year-old woman on a San Francisco pierlast week, reports revealed Tuesday as Hillary Clinton called out the city for releasing the suspect from jail in April.
Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, 45, admitted to killing Kathryn Steinle in a 45-minute jailhouse interview with KGO, which also first reported the gun's stunning provenance.
Lopez-Sanchez said he was on sleeping pills when he found the gun wrapped in a T-shirt on the ground next to his leg while sitting on a bench on July 1.
The gun went off three times when Lopez-Sanchez grabbed it on Pier 14, he told KGO.
The felon claims he kicked the weapon into the bay, lit a cigarette and walked off, unaware the gunfire struck someone.
Steinle was shot in the back as her father looked on and died at the hospital.
Lopez-Sanchez was arrested an hour later.
The .40 caliber handgun, which was not the a government-issued weapon, was stolen during a downtown car burglary in June, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The agent it belonged to was not named.
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Oh, wait....
Planted weapon?
I wonder what agency. ICE? IRS?, ATF?
Every liberal should be strung up by their thumbs.
What are the odds a fed lost a weapon and then it is used in THIS high-profile of a shooting?
BLM I heard
I need those odds, Powerball is going up this week...
Gee, what does BLM need with guns?
Been saying it for days.
Outlaw Federal Agents from having guns and tragedies like this will end.
Actually them guys do need firearms. We get lots of drug and human smugglers coming in here over the BLM lands.
The answer is to transfer those lands to the states to sell off to private owners and let us take care of the smugglers and other illegals.
“The gun went off three times when Lopez-Sanchez grabbed it on Pier 14, he told KGO. “
Boy Howdy, them guns are now acting like SUVs did a few years back. Just going off on their own.
He probably stole it from the Agents car
“Steinle was shot in the back as her father looked on and died at the hospital.”
If I wrote a sentence like that in elementary school, my teacher would have flunked me.
What? ...the father died too, after looking on?
It’s astounding how many federal and state employees “need” a gun while, at the same time, their bosses try to restrict ordinary citizens’ right to carry.
Department of Education SWAT team?
When you try to jack some Mtn. grown weed from the squatting criminal invaders your better have some heat...
I am saddened to hear that her father looked on, then died at the hospital. It must have been fatal, having observed something that shocking.
This was insufficiently unclear, so I shall spice it up:
"The a .40 caliber handgun, not was which not was a not the a non-government-issued a the weapon, was stolen not during a the downtown car the a burglary the a in June, the a San Francisco Chronicle a the reported."
Even a Glock will only do it once.
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