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05-25-2011, 06:54 AM
Everyone knows how heavy a .22 rifle is:sifone:
Miami-Dade man killed while taking rifle from car trunk
By Diana Moskovitz, The Miami Herald
6:23 a.m. EDT, May 25, 2011
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY—
A West Miami-Dade man was fatally shot when he tried to help another person get a rifle out of a car trunk, Miami-Dade police said.
The rifle belonged to Felix Santana, 21, police said. Santana was charged with manslaughter.
An arrest affidavit, released Tuesday, detailed what police believe happened.
Santana, police said, got the .22-caliber rifle from a cousin about a week ago. He used it for target shooting. He also left it in his car trunk, loaded and without a trigger guard, the affidavit said.
Monday afternoon, he took the rifle to his apartment at 8851 Fontainebleau Blvd. and asked another man who lived in the complex for help getting it out, the affidavit said. That man was not identified by police.
The man held the trunk open with his right hand and grabbed the barrel of the rifle with his left, the affidavit said. Santana held the rifle stock, the affidavit said.
But as they lifted the rifle, it discharged. The bullet struck the man in the chest. Paramedics took the man by helicopter to Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center, where he died.
Miami-Dade man killed while taking rifle from car trunk
By Diana Moskovitz, The Miami Herald
6:23 a.m. EDT, May 25, 2011
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY—
A West Miami-Dade man was fatally shot when he tried to help another person get a rifle out of a car trunk, Miami-Dade police said.
The rifle belonged to Felix Santana, 21, police said. Santana was charged with manslaughter.
An arrest affidavit, released Tuesday, detailed what police believe happened.
Santana, police said, got the .22-caliber rifle from a cousin about a week ago. He used it for target shooting. He also left it in his car trunk, loaded and without a trigger guard, the affidavit said.
Monday afternoon, he took the rifle to his apartment at 8851 Fontainebleau Blvd. and asked another man who lived in the complex for help getting it out, the affidavit said. That man was not identified by police.
The man held the trunk open with his right hand and grabbed the barrel of the rifle with his left, the affidavit said. Santana held the rifle stock, the affidavit said.
But as they lifted the rifle, it discharged. The bullet struck the man in the chest. Paramedics took the man by helicopter to Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center, where he died.