By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Centralia police today said they concluded a 21-year-old gunshot victim was injured when a small caliber pistol in her boyfriend’s pocket accidentally discharged.
The woman was struck in the thigh and has been treated and released from the hospital, according to the Centralia Police Department.
Centralia officers were summoned to the emergency room at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia about 1 o’clock this morning after Olympia police determined an arriving patient was wounded in Centralia.
This morning, police said they didn’t know specifically where in Centralia the incident occurred, and this afternoon detective Sgt. Pat Fitzgerald didn’t offer further detail on a location, noting it is still an active investigation.
Police have said both individuals are Centralia residents.
The 18-year-old boyfriend was arrested this morning for unlawful possession of a firearm, because he is a convicted felon, according to Fitzgerald. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail also for outstanding warrants.
Fitzgerald declined to identify the boyfriend, because he has not yet been criminally charged.
Detectives are continuing to follow up on other information, according to Fitzgerald.
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For background, read “Detectives investigating Centralia shooting ” from Monday November 30, 2015, here
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
If he is a felon without restored rights, then this story cannot be correct. A felon cannot be in possession of a firearm unless their rights have been restored by a judge.
So, either the story is wrong, or “gasp” gun control laws really don’t work like they’re intended too. There’s a huge population right her in Washington State that maintains all you have to do is pass another law; so much for that argument.
So who was it anyway? Why are you withholding names if they are both adults?
Tiny pukes at their finest