From Miami Herald
Employee accidentally shot in butt at Broward pawn shop
BY SARAH ELDER
SELDER@MIAMIHERALD.COM
A man was taken to the hospital after getting shot in the buttocks at work in a South Florida pawn shop.
At about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, an employee of David Bari’s Pawn shop on State Road 7 in Margate stepped out, leaving his semiautomatic Glock .40 caliber gun on top of a counter. Another employee saw the weapon and thinking it was a store item, picked it up to place it in the showcase.
The gun went off while the employee was handling it and a third employee happened to be in the line of fire.
The bullet entered the man’s right buttocks and exited the front pelvic area, according to Lt. Zettek of the Margate Police Department.
Investigators are looking into the incident but the preliminary investigation is showing that it was accidental, Zettek said.
The wounded man was taken to North Broward Medical Center and will be fine, Zettek said.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/04/2730909/man-shot-in-broward-by-accident.html#storylink=cpy
Employee accidentally shot in butt at Broward pawn shop
BY SARAH ELDER
SELDER@MIAMIHERALD.COM
A man was taken to the hospital after getting shot in the buttocks at work in a South Florida pawn shop.
At about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, an employee of David Bari’s Pawn shop on State Road 7 in Margate stepped out, leaving his semiautomatic Glock .40 caliber gun on top of a counter. Another employee saw the weapon and thinking it was a store item, picked it up to place it in the showcase.
The gun went off while the employee was handling it and a third employee happened to be in the line of fire.
The bullet entered the man’s right buttocks and exited the front pelvic area, according to Lt. Zettek of the Margate Police Department.
Investigators are looking into the incident but the preliminary investigation is showing that it was accidental, Zettek said.
The wounded man was taken to North Broward Medical Center and will be fine, Zettek said.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/04/2730909/man-shot-in-broward-by-accident.html#storylink=cpy