www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060405/NEWS02/604050417/1070/NEWS02State trooper wounded in incident at Dover home
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 04/5/06
BY MATT PORIO
TOMS RIVER BUREAU
DOVER TOWNSHIP — An off-duty State Police trooper was shot in the stomach Tuesday night in an incident authorities say was accidental.
The trooper — whose name was not released — was expected to undergo surgery after he was taken by a family member to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune Tuesday night, said Sgt. Jeanne Hengemuhle of the State Police public information office.
The trooper was reported alert and conscious after the shooting but was listed in critical but stable condition when he was admitted to the hospital, Hengemuhle said.
The incident occurred around 6:15 p.m., and involved one bullet and no other individuals, she said.
The gun involved was "not his duty weapon" nor another weapon he owns, she said.
Dover Township Police Chief Michael G. Mastronardy said the shooting occurred at a Nebraska Avenue address.
Hengemuhle said the home is not the trooper's.
The circumstances of the shooting were not known. The shooting was being investigated Tuesday night.
"I can't comment until I get more information," Hengemuhle said.
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It seems like a mini-spurt in the reporting of gun related incidents in the local paper.
Sounds like he and his wife were visiting some friends for dinner and he and his buddy were "checking out" his buddy's collection.
More violations of basic safety protocols - making us all look bad.