This story really is bizarre and horrific. Reportedly a woman celebrating her 25th birthday at a party hugged the wrong guy -- I mean maybe he was a nice guy and all, but definitely the wrong dude to embrace. Adaisha Miller came up to a fellow partygoer and hugged him from behind, triggering the gun he had in his holster. The whole scenario is made even more tragic because the gun wearer was an off-duty police officer. The woman died.
Word has it that the police officer, who has been placed on desk duty while the incident is investigated, was wearing a waist holster made of lightweight material that would make it possible to squeeze the trigger right through the holster.
Now, I'm no gun expert, but what the hell? Aren't there locks on guns? And do officers carry their guns everywhere -- even to the birthday parties of friends? Seems like there should have been some precautions here. Additionally, the woman reportedly hugged him from behind -- so how she managed to pull the trigger on a gun is beyond me.
Wouldn't a gun that could go off at a moment's (or hugger's) notice be dangerous for the man to wear? And what if a child had come up and tugged at his shirt or something? I'm just baffled. Maybe some police officers or family members of police officers can tell me what happened here, because I'm not getting it.
Perhaps it is just common sense never to touch a police officer -- ever. But he was at a party. Presumably he didn't have his uniform on. This just seems like a tragedy that could have been avoided with more common sense and precaution.
Could this tragedy have been prevented?
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I am married to a police officer and I have a very difficult time believing this story is as written. Glocks are their on duty weapons; one great thing about Glocks is they have a lock reflex if they are dropped or in their holsters, which makes it almost impossible for the trigger to be pulled unintentionally. Also, we went to a wedding back in October and since we were in jurisdiction, my husband had to wear his gun and we danced the night away with no one getting shot :)
I agred this doesn't sound right, unless something was wronge with the gun or it had some sort of outlandish modification I can't see how this would happen. I guess anything is possible but something is strange about this. Erinly, I've heard the same thing about glocks, being difficult to accidentally fire is why they are the gun of choice for officers who wear them strapped to thier body right? Also, it takes some pretty deliberate and direct pressure to pull a trigger.
Maevelyn, the holsters they carry in while on duty are made of a hard plastic so it is virtually impossible to pull the trigger while it is in its holster. My husband had a guy he worked with get shot at and the shooter hit the Glock, which was in the holster, with 4 bullets and the whole handle ballooned out, but the gun (and 9 bullets in the magazine) didn't explode or anything! I couldn't believe how well made that gun was. We are like the poster children for Glocks because of that exact incident.
It was a Smith & Wesson 40 caliber semi-automatic. The Detroit paper (of course it happened in Detroit) has a lot more info than the linked article. And she wasn't just hugging him, she was grinding against him, so I could see the holster being repositioned so the barrel was no longer pointing down. Or his wife shot the girl for grinding on her man.
Way to place the blame on the cop. It was an accident no one is at fault.
This is a weird story.
I have a hard time beilving this story, my husband has a conceal carry and has a gun on him almost all the time, and it's not possible for the trigger to be pulled while in the holster. If it was it wouldn't be safe to carry.