Fairfax County detectives determined that the officer pulled the trigger on a gun he believed was unloaded early Sunday, striking Jesse Brown Hernandez inside an apartment in McLean, Virginia, according to a police statement.
Hernandez, 22, was found deceased with a gunshot wound to the upper body, Fairfax County police said.
The officer who fired the gun has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, police said. He is being held at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center on no bond.
Police said that preliminarily detectives determined that Roy “was attempting to dry fire a firearm.”
“Dry firing is when one simulates the discharge of a firearm by pulling the trigger of a firearm that is unloaded,” police said in the news release.
There were four people in the apartment at the time of the shooting, and all were known to each other, police said. Three of the four involved individuals were off-duty U.S. Park Police officers.
If law enforcement can’t properly handle a firearm, we shouldn’t hand them out to every moron who applies.
If you banned morons from serving in the police force they’re going to be short staffed. I’m sure that some police officers have brains in the same way that I’m sure that aliens exist, I just don’t think they’ve ever visited earth.