Toledoan, 92, mistakenly shoots officer(OH)

toledoblade.com ^ | 6 July, 2012 | TAYLOR DUNGJEN

[marktwain]

Toledo police Lt. Randy Pepitone wanted to make sure Annie Huddleston was all right inside her central Toledo home.

Ms. Huddleston thought the man outside prying open her front door lock Thursday was a burglar.

Just as Lieutenant Pepitone was opening the door, Ms. Huddleston, 92, steadied in her hand her late husband's .357 Magnum revolver, and pulled the trigger just once.

The bullet blasted through a wall hitting the 54-year-old lieutenant in the side of the head.

"All of a sudden there was a loud explosion right next to my ear and I went down," the lieutenant said. "I could taste the blood, I saw it dripping on the porch, and then saw the bullet hole."

The lieutenant said he knew the wound was superficial so he crawled across the porch and jumped over the railing where he was treated by firefighters already on scene.

The crew took Lieutenant Pepitone to Toledo Hospital where he was treated and released.

Police Sgt. Joe Heffernan said Ms. Huddleston will not be charged with the shooting because "I don't think it meets all the culpability standards for felonious assault on a police officer."

Sergeant Heffernan said the department confiscated Ms. Huddleston's gun on Thursday morning.

"Lieutenant Pepitone is very lucky," Sergeant Heffernan said. "Another centimeter over and it could have been a very different story."

[Tribune7]

If he knew she was old and she wasn't answering a knock, the forced entrance might have been out of concern for her health.

It doesn't sound like the police were trying to make an arrest.

[End Times Sentinel]

What the hell is that?

A gun in your possesion that belongs to someone else.

[Starstruck]

Belonged to her late husband. It is her gun. I’ve bought guns from people and never got them licensed whatever that means.

[AAABEST]

A gun in your possesion that belongs to someone else.

What state planet do you live on?

I've had lots of guns in my possession that belonged to others, as others have had my guns. It's perfectly legal - nobody ever needed a "license" one way or another.

Do have even the slightest clue as to WTF you're talking about?

[ExGeeEye]

Even if the former owner, her husband, had died intestate, legal ownership would pass immediately to her.

Or, so it is in Michigan. YMMV.

[ASA Vet]

Why would Sgt. Joe Heffernan be charged with anything?

Lt. Randy Pepitone who was doing the attempted forcible entry already got his reminder to knock on citizens doors instead. A lesson he'll probably remember for the rest of his life.

RIF

[End Times Sentinel]

How about calling her on the phone, you know, the phone that she used to call 911 in the first place. How about turning on the emergency lights on the patrol car, using the siren, using the loudspeaker system?

Read the article. What do you think "trying to contact" means?

[Labyrinthos]

What do you think "trying to contact" means?

In police jargon, it means breaking down the front door.

[ASA Vet]

Taylor Dungjen would piss my mom off enough to get shot for calling her "Ms."
Mom is also an elderly widow who is a "Mrs." not some made up hippy term.

[piroque]

Just as Lieutenant Pepitone was opening the door, Ms. Huddleston, 92, steadied in her hand her late husband's .357 Magnum revolver, and pulled the trigger just once.

Cut and pasted the wrong name,, had a duh moment

[Starstruck]

Yeah, in Kansas if we buy from a FFL dealer they do a background check, but that doesn’t mean the gun is “licensed”. I’m pretty sure if you get a conceal carry, you are licensed but the gun you choose to carry isn’t.

[ASA Vet]

Everyone has them. No biggie.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Did you read the whole article?

Nahhh. Proudly posting without reading the whole article since 2001.

[Balding_Eagle]

No need to even read the MSM to find the enemey, we have gun grabbers right here on FR.

[Jack Hydrazine]

“You shouldn’t shoot me, Johnny. My grandmother shot me once... Once.”
-Johnny Dangerously (1984)

[Thank You Rush]

“”I could taste the blood, I saw it dripping on the porch, and then saw the bullet hole.””

He was hit in the side of the head. How on earth did he “see” a bullet hole in his head??

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I still haven't read the whole article but I have to say...since when does a 911 operator let the caller off the phone? This is how they communicate to the caller that police are on the scene.

If I were the cop, I would not have entered without first knowing that this vital piece of info was understood by the caller.

[moovova]

“Read the article. What do you think “trying to contact” means?”

What do you KNOW “trying to contact” means in this situation? Please enlighten us as to what the police actually did to contact her.

[moovova]

Gotta ask though...is the dog OK?