Saved By The Slide
As police exchanged gunfire with the gunman at a hospital on Chicago’s South Side on Monday, one officer escaped injury by inches.
Chicago Police Officer Samuel Jimenez, 28, who was married with three children, was killed after being shot in the lobby of Mercy Hospital when he responded to a call about the shooting, officials said. Two other hospital workers, Dr. Tamara O’Neal and Dayna Less, 25, a first-year pharmacy resident, were also killed in the shooting.
A second officer was also shot at while responding to the hospital, but was not injured because a bullet struck his holster and embedded itself in his gun, FOX 32 reported.
A photo released by police that appears to show the bullet hole in the officer’s holster and the bullet lodged in his firearm.
Read the rest of the article: https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-cop-escaped-injury-during-hospital-shooting-after-bullet-struck-gun-holster
Rare that a holstered sidearm during a gunfight would save your life.
Good argument for a backup gun.