[Oorang]

I've said this earlier on this thread and I'll say it again. This story is fishy, real fishy, IMO. If the guard shot himself there would be powder burns on his face, on his shoulder, chest area (on his clothes), etc. There is no way anyone can hold a handgun far enough away from their own body to not leave powder burns. It's impossible.

Second, ballistics testing. Ballistics testing in unreliable only when the gun has been shot a bunch of times after the shooting in question. In this case, it sounds pretty implausible that the guard would shoot himself in the shoulder and then proceeded to shoot the gun a couple of hundred more times to alter the rifling in the barrel. It's standard procedure (I think) to search for the bullet and the casing in order to do ballistics testing That's what they need to do to see if it matches the guards gun. I can't imagine that they are not doing that. The whole thing doesn't pass the smell test.

[WestCoastGal]

They saw it in his eyes don't ya know!!!! Re: BASF shooting in Freeport Texas.
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House says when he confronted the man, he was shot in the shoulder.

Hours after the incident, FBI agents came to the hospital and gave House a lie detector test.

"The test was telling him that I shot myself. And I told him no, that I didn't, and he said that he could see it in my eyes that I was crying out for some type of help," said House.

Investigators are still probing a shooting incident at a Freeport chemical plant.

Investigators would only say that House has no criminal record, and that police are still investigating his initial story.

The FBI maintains the shooting does not have any connection to terrorism.

House is back at home and has hired an attorney.

[thecabal]

Considering how much FedGov likes to downplay any specific terrorist threats, along with the previous stories about how the FBI has been infiltrated, is it any big surprise they are trying to discredit this security guard?

[Mrs. Xtrmst]

Not that I accept the official explanation 100% but I believe they did say in the first article that the guard did have powder burns...that he must have been shot at close range.

[JustPiper]

And the whole 'unarmed' guard thing...