{"id":43754,"date":"2018-04-10T07:15:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T14:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=43754"},"modified":"2018-04-10T16:39:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T23:39:19","slug":"sheriffs-office-gunshot-wound-to-face-was-accidentally-self-inflicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=43754","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff&#8217;s Office: Gunshot wound to neck was accidentally self inflicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn L. Decker<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Lewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS \u2013 The Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office yesterday reported they investigated after a Morton teen shot himself with a gun he thought was unloaded over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old was wounded by a bullet that struck him at the bottom of his neck, traveled through his mouth and was lodged behind his nasal cavity, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies called to Morton General Hospital about 10:15 p.m. on Saturday spoke to the victim and two of his friends, and learned it occurred at a residence on the 800 block of Davis Lake Road, Chief Deputy Dusty Breen said.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old had entered a bedroom to retrieve a 22 caliber handgun, was unaware the firearm was loaded and intentionally pulled the trigger, Breen said. The friends drove him to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>While deputies were at the hospital, the victim was being prepared for airlift to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for surgery, according to Breen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS \u2013 The Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office yesterday reported they investigated after a Morton teen shot himself with a gun he thought was unloaded over the weekend. The 19-year-old was wounded by a bullet that struck him at the bottom of his neck, traveled through his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-43754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43754","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=43754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43762,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43754\/revisions\/43762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}