Question For Karen inspired TimmyTaes to forward Wikipedia’s entry on “another careless Federal employee and his gun”:
The gun used in the shooting was confirmed by forensic crime laboratory technicians to be the same one stolen from a federal agent’s car. The .40-caliber handgun had been taken from a U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ranger’s car that was parked in downtown San Francisco, on June 27, 2015. The ranger, John Woychowski, was in San Francisco for an official government business trip. He testified at trial that he had left the weapon holstered and unsecured in a backpack under the front seat of his personal vehicle while he went to dinner with his family. Woychowski immediately reported the theft to San Francisco police, as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation‘s National Crime Information Center. Police issued a citywide crime alert but did not call in CSI technicians to examine the scene.
Ballistics experts for both the prosecution and defense agreed with the investigators finding that, after García Zárate fired the gun, the bullet ricocheted off the pavement 12–15 feet (3.7–4.6 m) away from him before traveling another 78 feet (24 m) and striking Steinle.
Tim adds:
6:08 pm on March 1, 2021What the Wiki article doesn’t mention is that Ranger John Woychowski kept a round in the firing chamber of his gun while he drove up to SF with his family. It also doesn’t mention that San Francisco is the car break in capital of the USA if not the world and hence Ranger Woychowski is a complete … idiot to leave a loaded unsecured gun in a car in SF.
I don’t think anything came of the family’s lawsuit against the BLM.
