Off-duty cops gun "fires twice" in mall bathroom

**HyDef** · December 28th, 2012, 11:52 AM

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/28...mall-bathroom/

WALLKILL, N.Y. – Authorities say a police officer's personal handgun discharged twice when someone tried to steal his jacket while he was in the bathroom at an upstate New York shopping mall.

The Times Herald-Record of Middletown reports that Lt. Paul Pratti of the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office had hung his jacket on a stall door in a restroom at the Galleria in Wallkill in neighboring Orange County last Saturday night.

Officials say someone reached over the door and tried to grab his jacket, with the gun inside. Police say the gun fired twice, with both bullets hitting the ceiling. No one was injured.

Authorities say Pratti was off duty at the time. Town of Wallkill police are investigating, while the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office is also conducting an internal investigation.

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**Emptymag** · December 28th, 2012, 11:53 AM

Yeah, OK...

**phillysteve** · December 28th, 2012, 11:57 AM

Someone effed up and came up with a really bad story lol.

**DennisH82** · December 28th, 2012, 12:00 PM

They should teach better fictional accounts at the academy, they are not even trying with this one. Don't you just hate those guns that go off by themselves twice? With the safety on and no booger hook on the bang switch! I guess mine are not trained to do that.

**NathanB** · December 28th, 2012, 12:23 PM

this is one of the closest malls to me. I applaud his courage for sitting on one of the toilets in that shithole. this was also reported in the local paper as the rounds hit the floor. Why would you even hang your coat with your weapon up? Great weapon retention there!

**flyingjunkie** · December 28th, 2012, 12:35 PM

My question is: How did the supposed perp know that the guys jacket was hanging on the hook inside the stall? Did he going into the stall next to it and look in before he tried to grab it? Or did he just start reaching into occupied stalls to see if he could get something? Sounds kinda fishy to me....