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Jan 18, 2011 News
Police have temporarily seized the firearm of a licenced holder as they probe the discharge of the weapon under questionable circumstances. While the owner is saying that it went off accidentally, neighbours are alleging otherwise.
Police said that around 09:40 hrs on Saturday last, 75-year-old June Mendez, of Greenfield Park, Providence, E.B.D, reported that her neighbour Dennis Moore had just discharged a round from a firearm in the area.
Police investigators responded immediately, and upon questioning several persons, they learnt from Mendez’s gardener that Moore had discharged his firearm in an indiscriminate manner.
According to the gardener, while he and a weeder named Muniram were weeding on the eastern side of Mendez’s yard, Moore came home and as he entered his yard he discharged a round from his firearm in the air. Moore, 57, was contacted and he claimed that he is a licenced firearm holder of a .32 Smith and Wesson revolver. He told investigators that he went to the market and upon his return in his motor car he had his firearm in his right side pants pocket, and it was slipping out.
According to him as he exited the car and was about to take the firearm out of his pocket, his finger accidentally touched the trigger and a round went off into the earth.
Moore said that he took the spent shell out of the chamber and threw it between some flower plants in his yard.
Despite this explanation, however, the police took possession of Moore’s firearm and six live rounds of ammunition, his licence for 2010 and a box containing 40 extra .32 live rounds.
Checks were made for the spent shell but it was not found.
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