Death at the Firing Line - UPDATED
Today I decided to go to the firing line. I hadn't been in 3 months. I was directed to shoot in the public range because the members side was being cleaned.
Long story short, the lady next to me shot herself in the head and died.
I will write my perpectives on what happen later. I can't go into detail now, but I thought the members here should know what happen today.
Anthony
UPDATE: here are the details I promissed
These are the fact from my perspective.
I decided to go to the Fining Lining Shooting Range during my lunch break. I’m a member but I haven’t been shooting for about 3 months. I checked in at the counter about 12:45 and a guy is complaining about someone shooting rapid fire. The guy at the counter states he is a pilot and has permission. I ask which lane I am going to be assigned to, and the guy at the counter states that I will be at lane 8 in the public range because the members range is closed due to being cleaned.
I walk in the public range and notice the pilot at lane 4, a guy in BDU packing up, and a couple in lane 6. As I walk by lane 6, I hear the couple, and the guy is giving a “shooting lesson” to his girlfriend. I make a mental note that I have a new shooter next to me. I have two guns and one clip loaded for each. I fire off my first clip from the P22 and reload. Fire off the next clip, then grab my 9mm and fired off a clip.
Now that I got that out of my system, time to reload all my magazines. The guy in the BDUs is gone, and I over hear a partial conversation of the couple next to me. The guy ask, “let me have your car keys, I need to grab something”.
She replies simply, “Why?”
“I’ll explain when I get back. Keep on shooting”, was the last I heard.
Before I could finish loading my clip, I hear screaming. I look over and the pilot and the guy is leaving the range. I look down at my feet and the lady is lying there with a pool of blood around her head. I’m trained in CPR but I guess I just couldn’t think. I didn’t check her or anything. I just knew she was dead. I stepped over her and walked out of the range with just my muffs on my head and the clip in my hand. The employees were on the phone with 911 and going into the range to check her status. They came out shortly and I hear them tell the 911 operator that she wasn’t breathing.
The police were there within five minutes. I kneeled in the showroom and prayed for her while I waited for the detectives. I heard the first part of the boyfriend’s testimony.
“Oh my God, my girlfriend killed her self”
“She has gone shooting with me in the past, but I know that she is mentally unstable.”
This in when I got a little pissed. New shooter, left her alone with a loaded gun and he knew that she was “mentally unstable”.
I went through three verbal testimonies and one written. 2.5 hours later they said that I could go home but they kept my guns, ammos and targets. I understand why. The detective told me to call him next Monday to see if I could get my gear.
