Looks like an accidental discharge to me. That kind of thing happens when you have people holding onto weapons and mingling around in close proximity.
Cripes, it happened one time in my platoon when guys were handing weapons back in after a field exercise. The sergeant was pulling back the slide on his .45 to show it was empty, it wasn’t, the slide slipped out of his hand and the round discharged, riccocheted off the floor and buried itself in the wall with a room with 20 guys in it. Easily could have killed somebody.
The Battalion CO made the Sergeant go around to every squad in the battalion with a sand barrel and give a demonstration on the proper way to clear a pistol.
From which side of the door? Had the shot come from behind her, someone else may have got hit instead, because people were around her, but none of them were turned that way or pushing on the door. Why didn't anybody shoot when the window was broken earlier? She was up in the window, a shot rings out, she falls backward, and people start looking around. So why haven't we heard anything from the government as to what happened? Nothing on what happened has officially been released.
This is the picture of a guy they suspect of breaking the window. It was posted on Parler, but it looks like it was originally posted on Twitter:
At the end of every range rotation or live fire exercise in my light combat units, every one of us cleared our weapons. Every one of us pulled the rear hinge pin and pulled the bolt carrier. An NCOIC then rodded each and every one of our weapons to be sure they were clear before sending each of us off of the range. Each one of us sounded off, “No brass, no ammo, Sergeant!”
There was no live ammo during field exercises except on ranges. We were all shook down for brass after each range rotation (pockets inside, out, etc.). Many prior servicemen from combat MOSs are very familiar with that mandatory routine.
Ashli Babbitt was shot in the chest according to several news outlets now. She was shot in the central nervous system and/or an artery from what appeared in the videos. She was stunned and unconscious (eyes open and fixed, signs of a seizure from blood pressure drop) for quite a few seconds before partially, barely gaining consciousness again for a few seconds (paralyzed from the chest down, mostly paralyzed above the chest, barely moving a hand, unable to raise head).
It was an accurate shot and highly likely not an accidental discharge. It was obvious that she wouldn’t make it. She died soon after.
