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PA: On-duty trooper shoots herself in the hand
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On-duty trooper shoots her hand
Thursday, September 19, 2002
By GREGG W. BORTZ parPAR and JIMMY P. MILLER
The Express-Times
ALLENTOWN -- A Pennsylvania state trooper shot herself in the hand Wednesday, Allentown police said.
An Allentown police official said the trooper was part of a state police operation in the city when her gun accidentally discharged about 5:15 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of a McDonald's at 15th and Tilghman streets.
Allentown police were not involved in the undercover operation, the city police official said.
State police from the Bethlehem barracks released a statement shortly after 9 p.m. saying they had arrested Tyrone Lamont Beasley, 23, of Allentown on various drug charges at the time of the accidental shooting.
While helping to arrest Beasley, the trooper was wounded by an accidentally discharged firearm, the state police statement said. State police did not identify the trooper.
The trooper was being treated for a gunshot wound at an area hospital, the release says. The state police crime unit from the Bethlehem barracks is investigating the accidental shooting, the release says.
Allentown Assistant Police Chief Ronald Manescu said city police were aware of the operation and provided backup, but were not involved.
Beasley, who was arrested without further incident, was charged with possession with intent to deliver drugs and criminal use of a facility, the release says. He was lodged in Lehigh County Prison.
Allentown resident Heather Sullivan was in the McDonald's when the incident unfolded. She said she saw a man and woman acting suspiciously on a green motorcycle in the parking lot shortly after 5 p.m.
She went outside to see what was happening when several state police troopers surrounded a small, gray Toyota station wagon in the rear corner of the lot, she said.
When the police converged on the Toyota, Sullivan said she heard a popping noise.
"It didn't sound like gunfire," she said. "It sounded like a pop, like a firecracker."
Sullivan, who was about 10 yards from the scene, said she then backed away and kept her distance. Police then swarmed the area, she said.
When she looked back moments later, two state police troopers were carrying a third trooper into a police cruiser, she said.
About two hours after the shooting occurred, a state police forensic van was still at the McDonald's parking lot gathering evidence from the Toyota, and troopers in tactical uniforms with masks and bulletproof vests stood guard at the scene.
http://www.pennlive.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1032426300190404.xml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Thursday, September 19, 2002
By GREGG W. BORTZ parPAR and JIMMY P. MILLER
The Express-Times
ALLENTOWN -- A Pennsylvania state trooper shot herself in the hand Wednesday, Allentown police said.
An Allentown police official said the trooper was part of a state police operation in the city when her gun accidentally discharged about 5:15 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of a McDonald's at 15th and Tilghman streets.
Allentown police were not involved in the undercover operation, the city police official said.
State police from the Bethlehem barracks released a statement shortly after 9 p.m. saying they had arrested Tyrone Lamont Beasley, 23, of Allentown on various drug charges at the time of the accidental shooting.
While helping to arrest Beasley, the trooper was wounded by an accidentally discharged firearm, the state police statement said. State police did not identify the trooper.
The trooper was being treated for a gunshot wound at an area hospital, the release says. The state police crime unit from the Bethlehem barracks is investigating the accidental shooting, the release says.
Allentown Assistant Police Chief Ronald Manescu said city police were aware of the operation and provided backup, but were not involved.
Beasley, who was arrested without further incident, was charged with possession with intent to deliver drugs and criminal use of a facility, the release says. He was lodged in Lehigh County Prison.
Allentown resident Heather Sullivan was in the McDonald's when the incident unfolded. She said she saw a man and woman acting suspiciously on a green motorcycle in the parking lot shortly after 5 p.m.
She went outside to see what was happening when several state police troopers surrounded a small, gray Toyota station wagon in the rear corner of the lot, she said.
When the police converged on the Toyota, Sullivan said she heard a popping noise.
"It didn't sound like gunfire," she said. "It sounded like a pop, like a firecracker."
Sullivan, who was about 10 yards from the scene, said she then backed away and kept her distance. Police then swarmed the area, she said.
When she looked back moments later, two state police troopers were carrying a third trooper into a police cruiser, she said.
About two hours after the shooting occurred, a state police forensic van was still at the McDonald's parking lot gathering evidence from the Toyota, and troopers in tactical uniforms with masks and bulletproof vests stood guard at the scene.
http://www.pennlive.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1032426300190404.xml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878