From today's Irish Times
GARDAÍ IN Limerick have seized a mobile phone which may contain an image of the moment a well-known local criminal accidentally shot himself in the head.
Philip Collopy (29) was pronounced dead on Sunday night at the Mid Western Regional Hospital after his life support machine was turned off.
He was critically injured after he accidentally shot himself with a Glock pistol at a house on St Munchin’s Street at 2am last Saturday. There were at least five other people in the house at the time and gardaí are examining a mobile phone, which they seized from the house on the night along with the firearm and ammunition.
The mobile phone does not contain video footage, gardaí say, but it is believed it was used to capture images of Mr Collopy playing with the gun and reportedly showing others how to use it
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It is believed the father of two was showing others how to use the gun and took the magazine out of the Glock pistol but forgot to remove the live round from the breach when he shot himself.
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Last month Philip Collopy was a witness in a case at the Circuit Criminal Court in Limerick, where he arrived wearing a bulletproof vest which he showed to the jury. When asked why he needed to wear it, he replied: “Sure I get shot at every week.” He claimed there had been several attempts made on his life in recent years.
GARDAÍ IN Limerick have seized a mobile phone which may contain an image of the moment a well-known local criminal accidentally shot himself in the head.
Philip Collopy (29) was pronounced dead on Sunday night at the Mid Western Regional Hospital after his life support machine was turned off.
He was critically injured after he accidentally shot himself with a Glock pistol at a house on St Munchin’s Street at 2am last Saturday. There were at least five other people in the house at the time and gardaí are examining a mobile phone, which they seized from the house on the night along with the firearm and ammunition.
The mobile phone does not contain video footage, gardaí say, but it is believed it was used to capture images of Mr Collopy playing with the gun and reportedly showing others how to use it
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It is believed the father of two was showing others how to use the gun and took the magazine out of the Glock pistol but forgot to remove the live round from the breach when he shot himself.
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Last month Philip Collopy was a witness in a case at the Circuit Criminal Court in Limerick, where he arrived wearing a bulletproof vest which he showed to the jury. When asked why he needed to wear it, he replied: “Sure I get shot at every week.” He claimed there had been several attempts made on his life in recent years.
never play russian roulette with an automatic
when an explosion woke him out of a deep sleep it cheered up a dull wet day.
, it turned out the guy whose gun it was, just removed one bullet rather than loading just one round
