Police Shoots Wife - Peachtree City, GA

[alfsauve]

Initial story was he shot her twice, accidentally.   Yeah.

What little facts that have come to light afterwards was that she was only shot once.  Maybe, he fired twice.  As the article says, officials are aren't releasing a lot of info right now.

UPDATED 2:45 p.m. Jan. 1, 2015 — Peachtree City Police Chief William McCollom shot his wife Margaret once with his service Glock 9mm handgun in the couple’s bedroom just after 4 a.m. New Year’s Day, and no criminal charges have been filed, but beyond that, investigating authorities are saying little.

http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/01-01-2015/ptc-police-chief-admin-leave-after-wife-shot

Let's give him the benefit of the doubt.  It was accidental.  SO LET'S REVIEW.

#1   ALL guns are ALWAYS LOADED.   (Period.  End of Statement. Fine'.  No buts, excepts, ifs, sometimes, we know, I thought,  or other qualifiers or explanations.)

[billt]

Initial story was he shot her twice, accidentally.   Yeah.

How do you "accidentally" double tap someone?

[tombogan03884]

Initial story was he shot her twice, accidentally.   Yeah.

What little facts that have come to light afterwards was that she was only shot once.  Maybe, he fired twice.  As the article says, officials are aren't releasing a lot of info right now.

http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/01-01-2015/ptc-police-chief-admin-leave-after-wife-shot

Let's give him the benefit of the doubt.  It was accidental.  SO LET'S REVIEW.

#1   ALL guns are ALWAYS LOADED.   (Period.  End of Statement. Fine'.  No buts, excepts, ifs, sometimes, we know, I thought,  or other qualifiers or explanations.)

#2 Keep your boogerhook off the bang switch.

[alfsauve]

The "initial" story was 2 shots, but crime scene report says only one was fired.

GBI interviewed the wife last week and though she was sleeping when she was shot, her belief is it was an accident.   She went home from the hospital this week.

I suspect this LEO got his gun handling training from that dude in the BATF&E.

[billt]

I suspect this LEO got his gun handling training from that dude in the BATF&E.

You mean this guy?

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[alfsauve]

Yep.  That's the dude.  The only one qualified to handle a gun.


I'm glad the wife is okay.  The sheriff violate 2 prime directives and evidently thought rule #1 didn't apply to him.

[Solus]

do we know he didn't intend to shoot her?


I don't mean harm her, but mistook her for an intruder? 

might be he didn't ID his target and need work on marksmanship.

[alfsauve]

Ah, solus, you mean he meant to shoot something, but violated the identify your target rule?

She was sleeping in bed next to him and there has been no report or claim of a possible intruder.    The sheriff said he was moving the gun.  From wince to where we don't know, but he claims he was in the bed at the time.  This was pretty much an ND. 

3 rules.   Plus he's been DQ'd, for the time being, from his job.

[alfsauve]

It only gets stranger and stranger.

Seems the sheriff has been divorced 4 times.   The lady he shot was one of those four.  It's unclear which one.  They were cohabiting and refer to each other as husband and wife, but it's unclear whether they actually remarried. 

I think this story has run out of legs and probably the only other mention will be a final "no-charges".

Job future is unclear at this time.

[TAB]

How can it be unclear... its pinkslip time.