AnaTeresa
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A sheriffs deputy in Virginia shot his 16-year-old daughter in the torso when he mistook her for an intruder.
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Easton McDonald, a sergeant with the Loudoun County sheriffs office, then crashed his car into a barricade as he tried to race her to the hospital, requiring paramedics to respond and take her to the hospital. The girl is in stable condition at Winchester Medical Center, according to Capt. Donnie Lang of the Frederick County sheriffs office.
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In this case, as McDonald was getting ready for work at 3:30 a.m., he heard the familys home security alarm alert him that a garage door had been opened, Lang said. When McDonald heard noises coming from the garage, he retrieved his privately owned gunnot his service revolver.
He figured someone had broken into the garage, and his family was upstairs asleep, Lang said.
When he opened the garage door, McDonald saw the dark shape of a person coming toward him.
At that particular point, he discharges his firearm and strikes the person in the torso area, Lang said. Then he hears her voice and recognizes that its his daughter.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/08/15/va-officer-shoots-daughter-330-m-mistakes-intruder/
At what point are people going to realize that a "shoot first" mentality is not the way?!