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TexasTowelie

(112,202 posts)
Fri Apr 26, 2019, 05:04 AM Apr 2019

Three cadets wounded when gun in backpack accidentally goes off at Texas police academy

Three cadets were injured at a police academy when a gun that was in another cadet's backpack went off, Texas City police say.

The incident happened about 7:40 p.m. Thursday at College of the Mainland Law Enforcement Training Academy in Texas City, about 35 miles southeast of Houston.

Officers determined one cadet reached into his bag where he had a loaded gun, which discharged, striking the calves of two cadets — a man and a woman — and grazing a third, police said.

The two cadets who were hit were transported to a local hospital with injuries not thought to be life-threatening.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/04/25/three-cadets-wounded-gun-backpack-accidentally-goes-texas-police-academy

Where were the good guys with guns?

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Three cadets wounded when gun in backpack accidentally goes off at Texas police academy (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2019 OP
and just why was there a loaded gun in the back pack? Javaman Apr 2019 #1

Javaman

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1. and just why was there a loaded gun in the back pack?
Fri Apr 26, 2019, 08:51 AM
Apr 2019

and why was the cadet reaching for it?

so many questions unanswered.

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