Instructor shoots student in Ohio gun safety class
Aug 12, 2013, 9:58 PM
LANCASTER, Ohio (AP) – Police say an instructor at a central Ohio gun safety class has accidentally shot a student.
The Columbus Dispatch (
http://bit.ly/19ZLcIt) reports 73-year-old Terry J. Dunlap Sr. was demonstrating a handgun at a training facility on Saturday when he fired a bullet that ricocheted off a desk and into the right arm of 26-year-old Michael Piemonte.
The student says the .38-caliber bullet hit him between his elbow and armpit. He says many of the students in the class were nurses who helped stabilize him before he was transported to a Columbus hospital.
Piemonte tells the newspaper it appears Dunlap didn’t know the gun was loaded. Dunlap hasn’t responded to requests for comment.
A police report lists the shooting as accidental.
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Information from: The Columbus Dispatch,
http://www.dispatch.com
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