Thursday 12 September 2013

Man Tries to Show Wife Gun Isn’t Loaded, Ends Up Shooting Her Instead



An attempt to show his wife that a gun
brought into their home by a friend wasn’t
loaded went terribly awry for one Vermont
man who ended up shooting his wife in the
legs. Authorities in Windsor say Matthew Coleman,
37, had brought the 9mm handgun into the
couple’s bedroom for safekeeping out of
concern that children in the house might play
with it. When his wife, Dorthea, asked him if the gun
was loaded, Coleman assured her it
wasn’t, and demonstrated by pulling the
trigger. The gun went off, and a bullet struck Dorthea
in one leg and exited through the other. Emergency services were called to the scene,
and Dorthea was rushed to a nearby hospital.
She was conscious and alert at the time. Police officers subsequently arrested Coleman
and charged him with simple assault with a
deadly weapon. The county’s Deputy State’s Attorney David
Cahill said Coleman avoided a harsher charge
of aggravated assault because he failed to
demonstrate “extreme indifference to human
life.” “Simply put, the state has charged Mr.
Coleman for making a tragic, easily avoidable
mistake,” Cahill told reporters. Coleman pleaded innocent just the same.

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