A 22-year-old Alexandria man was shot in the chest after pretending to “clear rooms” with what he and his friend thought were his unloaded Glock handguns.
That’s according to a recently released search warrant affidavit detailing the shooting inside an apartment in the 4800 block of Kenmore Avenue on Saturday night, May 11.
No charges have been filed and the investigation remains active, according to APD.
The victim lives in the apartment and was with three friends, according to the search warrant affidavit. He and his friends watched a movie, and then the victim allegedly handed his friend a Glock handgun and they pretended to conduct close quarter battle drills. They practiced clearing rooms and then conducted a dry-fire drill.
“During these drills, the suspect… thought the firearm (he) was holding was unloaded, accidentally shot the victim,” police said in the search warrant affidavit. “(T)he victim and the suspect (then) decided to practice their draw time, or how fast they could remove the firearm from the holster. The victim told (police) that after approximately the sixth time of drawing their firearms, he heard a bang and was bleeding.”
Police arrived to find the victim’s friends applying pressure to the wound, and the unloaded handgun on the floor, according to police dispatches.
The victim told a responding officer that the shooting was accidental, according to the search warrant affidavit.
Police confiscated three firearms, two magazines, one shirt, two bullets and one shell casing, according to the search warrant.
Last year, a man was sentenced five years probation for the accidental shooting death of his best friend in Alexandria’s Lynhaven neighborhood.
