Man's accidental shot brings police, charges in Shippensburg

[gnbrotz]

http://www.publicopiniononline.com/ci_8831447

Man's accidental shot brings police, charges in Shippensburg
By VICKY TAYLOR

A Shippensburg man is in Cumberland County Prison today, charged with discharging a shotgun in an occupied building early Friday morning. Jesse Henry, 20, of 22 S. Prince St., was arrested by Shippensburg borough police soon after the 1:09 a.m. shooting. Police allege that he accidentally discharged a 12-gauge shotgun he had recently purchased in his bedroom, endangering his sleeping roommate and two other people sleeping in nearby bedrooms.

Patrolman Craig Dunn was on duty at the intersection of Orange and Prince Streets when he heard the gunshot, according to a news release. A short time later he saw a person running into the Prince Street complex and followed wet footsteps to the second floor.

The policeman knocked on the door where the footsteps ended and Henry opened the door, Dunn said in a news release.

Henry told police the discharge of the firearm was accidental. Dunn said the shot went through the wall and Dunn said he went outside to view the damage, then panicked and ran back inside.

Police seized the shotgun, drug paraphernalia, rifles, a handgun, ammunition and a number of gun clips filled with ammunition, according to the news release.

In addition to the felony charge of discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, Henry is charged with recklessly endangering another person, criminal mischief and possession of drug paraphernalia.

An on-call magisterial district judge arraigned Henry, setting his bail at $10,000.

[sjl127]

Not every gun owners has common sense...

[PisnNapalm]

Drugs and guns do not mix.

[gnbrotz]

Yes, but absent the drugs and paraphernalia (or even with them for that matter), what are the grounds to remove all firearms and ammo?

[headcase]

Kind of wondering the same thing...

[Skullz]

OK.. If the report is accurate in terms of facts. This guy is an idiot and shouldn't have a firearm.

Guns and drugs = BAD!

All that out of the way, repeat after me "I do not consent to a search."

Oh, and where's EM, usually the factual errors from these news "clips" require his presence.

[sjl127]

Hold on a minute.

What is a 20 year old doing with a handgun?

I'm assuming these are college students?

[gnbrotz]

What is a 20 year old doing with a handgun?

Can you please cite the statute that prohibits someone under 21 from owning a handgun?

[sluggie24]

Yes, but absent the drugs and paraphernalia (or even with them for that matter), what are the grounds to remove all firearms and ammo?

I was wondering the same thing myself. Unless he had distrubution quantities of a drug I would think they couldn't remove the firearms not involved in the incident. It was a negligent/accidental discharge after all.

[JoeWilliams]

Yes, but absent the drugs and paraphernalia (or even with them for that matter), what are the grounds to remove all firearms and ammo?

Absent the drug paraphenalia, I'm betting none of that would have happened, and most likely no felony charges for the ND. How many times do cops charge for that? It's rare, and I think we all know it.

I'm all with the cop on this. Druggy with guns, and a ND that fortunately didn't kill anybody, and I'd do what I could to make sure that a person that clearly shouldn't have guns, doesn't.

Good job to the cop, in this case, IMHO.