Given where she was hit, and that it was IWB....that "hug" seems to be quite a bit more....complicated.
IWB points just behind the wearer in many cases.
Close enough that means it would point at a leg if a person were right behind.
Leg has big artery in it that can bleed out out in less than a minute.
Otherwise the round deflected off of bone and went up into all sorts of important organs.
Sad.
Reading that it was IWB makes this seem all the more implausible.
The only scenario I can guess, and it's a stretch, is that first there was an article of clothing in the holster, near the trigger and this was a pretty ****ty holster. She started to wrap her arms around him from behind, her hand hit the butt of the gun and continues forward, the grip goes forward and the muzzle swings up and during this motion, the stuck clothing pulls at the base of the trigger while the muzzle is now pointing 30 to 40 degrees above horizontal.
Freakier things have happened I guess.
You're right. There HAD to have been something more to this. If it was a glomp from behind and if it was a shoulder holster, MAYBE it might have went off it something was caught in the trigger, but IWB, it should have been pointed to the ground. The victim was shot in the chest, into the heart. That means the barrel had to have ended up pointed at her. We're not getting the full picture here
Yeah, I know, but "should" he be on admin leave?
She hugged him from "behind"?
Just out of curiosity, why is the officer on admin leave?
Stephens said the Detroit officer will remain on administrative duties while authorities investigate the shooting and report their findings to the Wayne County prosecutor.
You're right. There HAD to have been something more to this. If it was a glomp from behind and if it was a shoulder holster, MAYBE it might have went off it something was caught in the trigger, but IWB, it should have been pointed to the ground. The victim was shot in the chest, into the heart. That means the barrel had to have ended up pointed at her. We're not getting the full picture here
The full picture can only be shown on a xxx adult site from the sounds of the assumptions here. Makes sense to me.
This is the only way I can align the barrel with the chest.
Ever consider the man may have been on an elevated platform such as a raised dance floor?
Or on some stairs?
Or as she approached him she stumbled and was in the process of falling as she reached for him?