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Man accidentally shoots coworker with assault rifle
UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM
10:51 a.m. June 2, 2006
SAN DIEGO – A man who brought an assault rifle to a Mount Hope auto shop accidentally shot and wounded a 17-year-old co-worker Friday morning as he was showing the gun off.
The shooting happened at Fleet Supply Inc. on Market Street near 41st Street at 8:21 a.m., said San Diego police Detective Gary Hassen.
The 42-year-old man who brought the Kalashnikov rifle, commonly known as an AK-47, to work did not know the gun was loaded, Hassen said.
There was no ammunition clip in the gun, but it still had a round in the chamber that discharged when the man pulled the trigger, police said.
The teenager was hospitalized with wounds to his right hip and left buttock, police said.
The gun's owner was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
No one else was injured in the incident, police said.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060602-1051-bn02shot.html
UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM
10:51 a.m. June 2, 2006
SAN DIEGO – A man who brought an assault rifle to a Mount Hope auto shop accidentally shot and wounded a 17-year-old co-worker Friday morning as he was showing the gun off.
The shooting happened at Fleet Supply Inc. on Market Street near 41st Street at 8:21 a.m., said San Diego police Detective Gary Hassen.
The 42-year-old man who brought the Kalashnikov rifle, commonly known as an AK-47, to work did not know the gun was loaded, Hassen said.
There was no ammunition clip in the gun, but it still had a round in the chamber that discharged when the man pulled the trigger, police said.
The teenager was hospitalized with wounds to his right hip and left buttock, police said.
The gun's owner was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
No one else was injured in the incident, police said.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060602-1051-bn02shot.html