Monday, January 24, 2011

Pistol mounted flash light causes injury

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/flashlight_shooting_case_unarmed_Cr6BWTKvpmFpwKOazZxnnL

Beware kids,
Death can come at the flip of a switch


The shooting of an innocent, unarmed elderly Bronx man by a cop who was trying to turn on a pistol-mounted flashlight is at least the second accidental police shooting in the US involving that same flashlight model.

But unlike Saturday’s shooting of 76-year-old Jose Colon — who survived a cop’s bullet to the stomach — an unarmed Texas man died Oct. 13 under what reportedly were strikingly similar circumstances involving the Surefire X300 flashlight