A 48-year-old Maysville man and his wife were in bed and ready for sleep on the first day of 2016 when authorities said a metal object tore through the ceiling and hit the wife in the shoulder.
The couple gathered the piece of metal and determined it was a slug fired from a shotgun, according to a Jackson County Sheriff’s report.
There are no leads on who fired the gun shortly after midnight, but it could be celebratory gunfire due to a New Year’s Day celebration, according to sheriff’s Capt. Rich Lott.
“She was not hurt bad,” Lott said. The responding deputy examined the red mark on the woman’s shoulder and he also examined the hole in the ceiling where the slug apparently tore through the roof and entered the bedroom. The slug, a large projectile fired from a shotgun, was gathered as evidence.
On New Year’s Day in 2010, a bullet apparently from celebratory fire went through a roof in a Decatur church and hit a 4-year-old boy in the head killing him, according to Atlanta media reports. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation later released a statement that the bullet was likely fired from an AK-47.
A spokesman for Athens-Clarke police said a person caught firing guns in a celebratory fashion would likely be charged with reckless conduct.
Yeah, a misdemeanor.
Probably Gang Members and Drug Dealers
ReplyDeleteCould be, I suppose. We're not likely to ever find out, though.
"Yeah, a misdemeanor."
DeleteOf course, if the round can be linked to a gun used by a person charged with the misdemeanor, then the charges would likely become felonies like negligent homicide in the case of the child killed back in 2010.
Did we ever attempt an estimate of how many gun owners are lawful and how many are not? I think the oft-cited 100 million refers to lawful gun owners and that that number far out-weighs the number of criminals with guns. From that we can assume most of the celebratory gunfire is done by so-called lawful gun owners.
DeleteI think the oft-cited 100 million refers to lawful gun owners and that that number far out-weighs the number of criminals with guns. From that we can assume most of the celebratory gunfire is done by so-called lawful gun owners.
DeleteWow--that's a pair of sentences that could not be constructed without a truly epic level of buffoonery. Congratulations. You are indeed special.