IL - Off-Duty Cop Shoots Home Invader

[Kevlar]

An off-duty Chicago police officer shot a burglar who broke into his South Side residence this morning, law enforcement sources said.

The officer, who was inside the home when burglars entered the house in the 7600 block of South Vernon Avenue about 9 a.m., shot one of the suspects, the sources said.

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/03/off-duty-cop-at-home-shoots-burglar.html.

 

[LT1MCSS]

The comments are more interesting than the article itself haha. They basically said what i was thinking when i read the title.

 

[Scrivener]

Notice this link on that same page:

Off-duty UIC cop accidentally shoots himself in store

Cop under investigation after Vernon Hills incident

By Carolyn Rusin and Jodi S. Cohen, Chicago Tribune

March 24, 2010
A police officer for the University of Illinois at Chicago is under investigation after his gun accidentally discharged, wounding him in the buttocks while he shopped at a Vernon Hills shopping center, officials said Tuesday.

Police are looking into whether Officer Bryan Mallin may have violated department policy, though officers are allowed to carry guns off-duty, said Bill Burton, a university spokesman.

UIC officers can carry weapons off-duty because "they are sworn officers with statewide statutory power," Burton said.

Mallin, 39, was shopping at a Best Buy store in Rivertree Court Shopping Center around 5:30 p.m. Monday when the .40-caliber gun tucked in his waistband went off, said Sgt. Kevin Grampo of the Vernon Hills Police Department.

The weapon discharged when either his finger or clothing got "hooked" in the trigger, Grampo said.

Vernon Hills police, he said, do not expect charges against Mallin, who was taken to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, where he was treated and released.

"We feel it was a true accident," Grampo said, who cited federal law that allows off-duty officers to carry weapons.

Burton declined to discuss the university's policy for officers who carry weapons off-duty, specifically whether it requires guns to be in holsters instead of waistbands.

Sounds like a certain Woonsocket detective who Glocked his own butt.

EC will note that the gun was a .40.

The rest of us will bet it was a Glock.

Never a "P'ofeshnul" around when you need one...........

 

[Cobra Guy]

 

[jkdyoyo]

The comments are more interesting than the article itself haha. They basically said what i was thinking when i read the title.

+1 Sounds like some of those guys are NES'ers