Teacher trained in use of guns accidentally fires weapon, injures a student

A teacher who has received gun training as a reserve police officer accidentally shot his gun on Tuesday at a California high school. A boy was "struck in the neck by 'debris or fragmentation' from something overhead," said Seaside Police Chief Abdul Pridgen.

From The Washington Post:

Pridgen said whatever hit the student was not a bullet.

However, the student's father, Fermin Gonzales, told KSBW 8 that it was his understanding that fragments from the bullet ricocheted off the ceiling and lodged in the boy's neck. The father said the teacher told the class before pointing the gun at the ceiling that he was doing so to make sure his gun wasn't loaded, something that can be determined visually.

"It's the craziest thing," Gonzales told the station. "It could have been very bad."

Gonzales said he learned about the incident when his 17-year-old son came home with blood on his shirt and bullet fragments in his neck.

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