A gun store owner thought it would be funny to pull a prank on his employee by replacing a real gun with a BB gun and then pulled it out and shoot it at the employee. Unfortunately, the owner pulled the wrong gun shot the employee with a real, loaded gun. The employee, a father of three, is dead as a result of this prank.
The first question that comes to my mind is why would a gun store owner have a loaded gun among the other guns? I could see where he might have a loaded gun behind the counter or having a concealed weapons permit to carry a gun on his person but having a loaded gun anywhere else in the store is crazy.Coastal Firearms owner Jon Whitley was arrested this Monday nearly a month after the death of Stefan Mrgan.
"A police affidavit states that Whitley placed a replica Glock BB gun among real firearms in the store with the intent of pranking Mrgan. Instead, Whitley mistakenly picked up and fired a real gun at Mrgan, according to an incident report," WSOC's report stated.
A police affidavit filed in the case describes Whitley's actions as "unintentional" but also "reckless" and a “departure from common firearm safety practices," the paper writes.
Whitley is a former reserve deputy for the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office.
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