TRAGIC, STUPID DEATH

By Bob Walsh

Florida Deputy Andrew Lawson, 23, will appear in court Monday to face a manslaughter charge in the shooting death of his best friend and roommate. 

 

Austin Walsh (no relation) had always wanted to be a cop.  He had been with the Brevard County (FL) S.O. for five years when he died as the result of someone else's stupidity.

He was at home playing a video came and took a brake.  His roomie, fellow deputy Andrew Lawson, for some reason passing understanding, picked up a real gun which he thought was unloaded, pointed it at Walsh and pulled the trigger as a "joke."  It wasn't unloaded.  Walsh died.

Lawson called it in and was taken into custody by state agents.  

One promising young deputy dead, the second with a ruined life, due to an unbelievable level of stupid.