{"id":12224,"date":"2012-05-07T10:26:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T17:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=12224"},"modified":"2012-05-08T14:27:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T21:27:28","slug":"news-brief-student-shot-during-gun-class-at-onalaska-gun-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=12224","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Student shot during gun class at Onalaska firing range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nA woman shot herself during a firearms class in Onalaska yesterday as she was practicing safely drawing a gun from a concealed holster.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies and aid called about 10:45 a.m. to the Firearms Academy of Seattle learned the 59-year-old Onalaska resident was re-holstering a 9 mm gun when it discharged, striking her in the upper leg, according to the Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff&#8217;s Cmdr. Steve Aust said she was taken to Providence Centralia Hospital with a non-life threatening injury.<\/p>\n<p>The gun range at the 3300 block of Centralia-Alpha Road is run by Marty Hayes and his wife. Hayes is a former police officer and known locally as the individual who assisted the mother of former trooper Ronda Reynolds in attempts to disprove her death was a suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes declined to comment on the incident, citing the privacy issues of his students.<\/p>\n<p>He said he teaches about 1,000 people each year how to safely and competently use handguns for self defense.<\/p>\n<p>Aust said there were several witness and the woman said as she was putting the gun away, either the trigger caught on something or her finger pulled the trigger.<\/p>\n<p>Her name was not released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter A woman shot herself during a firearms class in Onalaska yesterday as she was practicing safely drawing a gun from a concealed holster. Deputies and aid called about 10:45 a.m. to the Firearms Academy of Seattle learned the 59-year-old Onalaska resident was re-holstering a 9 mm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-12224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12224"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12228,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224\/revisions\/12228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}