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Gun hidden in sock fires, killing woman at Chicago thrift store
ABC local ^ | Mar 7, 2014

Posted on 03/07/2014 8:54:42 PM PST by KeyLargo

Gun hidden in sock fires, killing woman at Chicago thrift store

Friday, March 07, 2014

Woman fatally shot in thrift store accident

CHICAGO -- A woman working at a Chicago-area thrift store was fatally shot when a gun hidden in donated clothing accidentally discharged, police said.

Police said Carmen Dominguez, 54, was sorting donated clothing at a Unique Thrift Store in the 9300 block of South Ashland Avenue in the city's Washington Heights neighborhood on Friday morning. A male coworker she was working with discovered a .22 caliber handgun hidden inside a sock. When he shook the item out of the sock, police say the gun accidentally discharged in his hand.

Dominguez was struck by a bullet in the chest and taken to Christ Hospital in serious condition. She was later pronounced dead.

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To: trebb

If he knew it was a gun, why would he shake it out of the sock into his hand, and not take it out carefully?

If he didn’t know what was in the sock, why would he shake it out of the sock into his hand, and not onto a table or floor?

Not that there couldn’t have been an accidental discharge either way, but I just don’t buy his story. He shakes the sock (either knowing it was a gun, or not knowing what it was), into his hand, it lands perfectly aimed at his coworker, goes off, and hits her in a vital area causing her death. While technically possible, I have serious doubts that it actually happened this way.


61 posted on 03/09/2014 4:51:46 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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If he knew it was a gun, why would he shake it out of the sock into his hand, and not take it out carefully? If he didn’t know what was in the sock, why would he shake it out of the sock into his hand, and not onto a table or floor? Not that there couldn’t have been an accidental discharge either way, but I just don’t buy his story. He shakes the sock (either knowing it was a gun, or not knowing what it was), into his hand, it lands perfectly aimed at his coworker, goes off, and hits her in a vital area causing her death. While technically possible, I have serious doubts that it actually happened this way.

I saw a show that had a perp robbing a place with a gun - he knew it was a gun and that it was loaded. When he was sure there would be no resistance, he got careless and played with the gun a bit - it fired and hit the clerk. It was loose in his hand so it rotated back and the trigger reactivated as it was pointing at his own head. The store video shows a the prelude, then it is BANG-BANG, with clerk bleeding from his side and perp out of site and dead from blowing his own brains out.

When someone who doesn't have experience handling weapons, as I assume is the case with the "sock accident", I have no trouble picturing a dozen ways it could have gone bad.

62 posted on 03/09/2014 6:55:42 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb

You make a compelling point. Maybe I just need to watch Idiocracy again, to restore my faith in man’s stupidity. LOL. Sometimes I just forget that not everyone is as smart as the people in my little section of the world.


63 posted on 03/09/2014 7:41:55 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: KeyLargo

First rule by”Eddie Eagle” when a gun is “found”, Don’t touch and notify an ADULT.
Which in this incident, sounds like, didn’t happen.


64 posted on 03/09/2014 8:06:48 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (Waiting for the Golden Screw to be removed from Obama's navel and his a$$ falls off!)
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