Off-duty US Park Police Unintentionally Shot Fellow Officer in Virginia, Police Say

McLEAN, Va. (AP) — An off-duty U.S. Park Police officer fatally shot one other off- responsibility officer in a Virginia residence in what native authorities are describing preliminarily as an unintentional capturing involving alcohol.

Fairfax County detectives decided that the officer pulled the set off on a gun he believed was unloaded early Sunday, hanging Jesse Brown Hernandez inside an residence in McLean, Virginia, in line with a police assertion.

Hernandez, 22, was discovered deceased with a gunshot wound to the higher physique, Fairfax County police mentioned.

The officer who fired the gun has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, police mentioned. He was being held on the Fairfax County Grownup Detention Middle on no bond as of Sunday.

Police mentioned that preliminarily detectives decided that the officer “was trying to dry fireplace a firearm.”

“Dry firing is when one simulates the discharge of a firearm by pulling the set off of a firearm that’s unloaded,” police mentioned within the information launch.

There have been 4 folks within the residence on the time of the capturing, and all had been identified to one another, police mentioned. Three of the 4 concerned people had been off-duty U.S. Park Law enforcement officials.

Detectives proceed to analyze the circumstances main as much as and surrounding the capturing, authorities mentioned.

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