Porter thought he had his training gun in his holster, not his real, loaded gun, his lawyer said.
First rule of firearms: Assume your firearm is still unloaded if it was unloaded the last the time you checked
Porter thought he had his training gun in his holster, not his real, loaded gun, his lawyer said.
First rule of firearms: Assume your firearm is still unloaded if it was unloaded the last the time you checked
He'd been making jokes leveled at the trainee all day. He'd brought a firearm into a place where they're expressly forbidden, in a training that did not involve firearms, and had up to a dozen police personnel there in case of any security issue happening, and he walks a few paces to swivel and fire into a group...
Computer, enhance.
...AND HE'S DOING THE SIDE GRIP TOO
Wouldn't it be funny if he had hit someone who wasn't the target of the joke? "My client did not intend to kill the victim; in fact, my client was intending to aim at someone else."