Child accidentally kills mom with gun from purse, police say - Middle child syndrome strikes again


A 25-year-old woman was accidentally shot and killed Monday after one of her children found a gun inside the woman’s purse, Cornelius police said.

Police officers responded to a shooting call at an apartment in the 19300 block of Meridian Street around 7 p.m. on Monday. They found Gabriel Alexis Henderson in the back bedroom, where Medic pronounced her dead.

Henderson’s youngest child also was shot and taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.


Detectives said that, after speaking to the witnesses, the only people inside the apartment during the shooting were Henderson and her five children. Police said they found a small semiautomatic handgun on the bed when they arrived. Four of the children were in the room at the time of the shooting, police said. The oldest child was in the living room when the incident occurred.

Police said the names of the children would not be released to protect their privacy
Also wouldn't have happened if the gun wasn't in the purse
 
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Stormy Daniel's Lawyer said:
Ho ever hear of safety on until you're ready to fire? No way that little nigglet could have switched safety off and then shot up his moms and shit..
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Several polymer handguns do not have a safety, like a Glock. If one carries a striker action pistol, you can carry with one in the chamber with no safety. That gang / movie shit of someone racking a round is just meant to make someone look tough.
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I don't understand keeping a gun in a goddamn purse. With all the crap women keep in it I am surprised that it did not go off due to something setting off the trigger.

Keep your firearm in a quality holster (Safari Land is not quality) attached to a belt.

Christ, a gun in a purse...wait a minute Mr. Mugger or rapist. Let me dig through my purse for my gun.

I have seen a lot of handgun training, I have yet to see one where you draw from a purse and fire.
 
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I don't understand keeping a gun in a goddamn purse. With all the crap women keep in it I am surprised that it did not go off due to something setting off the trigger.

Keep your firearm in a quality holster (Safari Land is not quality) attached to a belt.

Christ, a gun in a purse...wait a minute Mr. Mugger or rapist. Let me dig through my purse for my gun.

I have seen a lot of handgun training, I have yet to see one where you draw from a purse and fire.
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She's a hood rat. The same breed of subhuman that thinks keeping a gun tucked into your waistband pointed right at your dick is a good idea. The only surprise here is that she managed to make it to the old age of 25.
 
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Stormy Daniel's Lawyer said:
Ho ever hear of safety on until you're ready to fire? No way that little nigglet could have switched safety off and then shot up his moms and shit..
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A lot of semiauto pistols are light on the actual safety switches if they are striker fired, and that's a lot of the more available semi-auto pistols.

The safety tends to be internal firing pin blocks that the trigger actuation moves out of the way, and sometimes an additional switch built into the trigger itself which is also a safety to prevent some cases of accidental trigger actuation. Some also have a decocker if they have a quasi SA/DA striker system (Walther I'm looking at you here) but that just means you make the trigger pull a DA length pull, it doesn't exactly "safe" the gun anymore than the existing safety blocks do.

What I'm getting at is most semi-autos are designed to be safe when you not holding them, much less pointing them at somebody, but if you are holding it and pointing them at somebody with your finger on the trigger it's supposed to fire when you pull.

So it's not inconceivable for a kid to be able to pull out the gun and start shooting, assuming there's a round in the pipe.

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TowinKarz said:
For all the talk of safeties, it could've been a revolver..... article doesn't seem to mention what kind of gun.
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The article says it was a "semiautomatic," which usually does not include revolvers. I agree it was probably a model without a manual safety. They are very popular now, since self-defense nerds say you will be raped and murdered before you get the safety off so you shouldn't have one. And a double action trigger is a safety because it's slightly harder to pull than a single action. And Glock = Perfection. (And it's probably just cheaper to make them without external safeties.)
 
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