By Adam Roberts
40/29 News
September 25, 2020
HODGEN, Okla. — An officer at the Hamilton Correctional Center near Hodgen, Oklahoma, shot himself in the leg at the firing range Thursday afternoon, Justin Wolf, Director of Communications for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, told 40/29 News.
Officers were at the range doing qualifying drills with weapons when one of the officers accidentally discharged his weapon.
The bullet went into the officer's lower leg.
The officer was brought to a Tulsa-area hospital. Their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, Wolf said.
The Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center is a minimum security prison for men that opened in 1969. It houses more than 700 inmates.
EDITOR'S NOTE: My staff at College of the Mainland was conducting timed firearms training for a Houston area police department at our firing range when the exact kind of accident occurred. The police chief was a retired FBI agent in his late seventies. He was being consistently beaten by his officers. in desperation he placed his finger inside the trigger guard and when the order to fire was given ... kapow. The round entered hi leg just below the knee and exited just above the ankle.
Several month later, the chief gave his preteen grandson a lesson in lawnmower safety. He was telling the little boy, "Never put your hand under this" [the deck] when ... a couple of his fingers were severed.
2 comments:
I doubled firearms training in every each district I supervised. I also recruited retired Agents who were firearms instructors to give one on one training to the folks who barely qualified. The improvements were noticeable. Once most where up to speed, I introduced a quarterly BBQ cookout and competition shoot. Agents from outside my district would travel to participate. I personally bought the win trophy because it wasn't in the budget. It was a great morale booster.
Back when we were still using revolvers (don't laugh, it wasn't that long ago), a sergeant shooting along side of me let out a yell and accused me of having shot him. Our best guess was that one of the rounds I had fired had shaved off a small piece of the bullet which exited out the side of the gun between the cylinder and the barrel. No, he wasn't hurt badly, but he did bleed a little. It was kinda funny at the time. (You had to be there).
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