Luckily, no one was killed or injured, but the consequences could have been disastrous when an armed detention officer with the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department accidentally fired his pistol in the men’s bathroom at the county jail in downtown Greensboro.
The bullet traveled through the wall of the bathroom, across the hall, and lodged into the door of the jail’s Transportation Office. That’s the division of the department that transports inmates between jails, to court, to hospitals and to other destinations.
On Thursday, Sept. 12, at about lunchtime, an officer who was using the restroom was adjusting his pants after rising from the toilet, and, before doing so, he took his pistol – most likely a Glock – out of its holster and placed it on the bathroom floor while he adjusted his pants…