Dangerous job

['andersom']

By Deanese Williams-Harris Tribune reporter

10:46 p.m. CST, March 7, 2014

A woman was fatally shot in the chest when a gun accidentally discharged while she and another worker sorted through donated clothing in a thrift store in the Brainerd neighborhood on the Far South Side, authorities said.

Carmen Dominguez, 54, was shot shortly before 10 a.m. at the Unique Thrift store in the 9300 block of South Ashland Avenue, police said.

The co-worker told police he discovered a sock with something in it and emptied the sock into his hand, according to a police statement.  A .22-caliber handgun slipped out of the sock and accidentally discharged in his hand, striking Dominguez in the chest, police said.

Dominguez was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she was pronounced dead at 10:27 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.

"Preliminary indications during the course of the investigation are that this is a tragic, accidental incident," police said in the statement.

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[Parts]

I can just imagine the gross and weird things people put in those donation boxes.  Though finding  something heavy in a sock I am sure they were thinking money or other valuble

['andersom']

I can just imagine the gross and weird things people put in those donation boxes.  Though finding  something heavy in a sock I am sure they were thinking money or other valuble

What ever they thought, the stuff they cannot sell in their shop, they probably will try to sell as sorted as possible, metal with metal, darned socks with other similar material. It all just has to be sorted.

[Jack]

Accidentally discharged, means accidentally pulled the trigger.

[odeon]

My son works at a thrift store. I have to ask him to be careful.

['andersom']

My son works at a thrift store. I have to ask him to be careful.

So do I. That's why my brother sent me the link to this article, telling me to be careful.

[Semicolon]

Accidentally discharged, means accidentally pulled the trigger.

Quite possibly. It's interesting that that's glossed over.

[El-Presidente]

Accidentally discharged, means accidentally pulled the trigger.

Not always.

[Semicolon]

Accidentally discharged, means accidentally pulled the trigger.

Not always.

Indeed, but guns are generally safe to handle, unless they've been modified or are badly worn. In any case, the bullet actually hitting someone meant that at least one basic rule of gun safety wasn't followed.

[Jack]

Accidentally discharged, means accidentally pulled the trigger.

Not always.

Indeed, but guns are generally safe to handle, unless they've been modified or are badly worn. In any case, the bullet actually hitting someone meant that at least one basic rule of gun safety wasn't followed.

If they didn't pull the trigger, then it wasn't really their matter of not following safety.

[Jack]

Accidentally discharged, means accidentally pulled the trigger.

Not always.

That's true, just highly likely.

[Parts]

The trigger could have been caught on something or they could have reached in to get it without even knowing what it was and tripped it that way.  As far as gun safety goes it only applies if you know you are dealing with a gun and not when you are trying to get something out of a sock that you don't know what it is. People hide things in all kinds of strange places, who ever put the gun in there might not have even known in was in with there stuff.

[Jack]

Good point, yes, if it happened just like the article said, emptied sock contents and blam, then it wasn't a matter of safety.

[Semicolon]

Accidentally discharged, means accidentally pulled the trigger.

Not always.

Indeed, but guns are generally safe to handle, unless they've been modified or are badly worn. In any case, the bullet actually hitting someone meant that at least one basic rule of gun safety wasn't followed.

If they didn't pull the trigger, then it wasn't really their matter of not following safety.

When I see "in his hand", I assume that he had control over where the gun was pointing. There's not enough information here to do more than speculate.

[odeon]

Ban thrift stores! They are dangerous!