Former Colts running back Zurlon Tipton dies in accidental shooting at Michigan car dealership
Source: CBS 4
A former Indianapolis Colts running back died Tuesday after a gun in his car was accidentally discharged.
Tipton pulled into the service bay at a Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram dealership in Roseville, Michigan around 9:30 a.m., according to WJBK.
He went to take a duffel bag out of the trunk of his vehicle, and one of the two guns inside the bag reportedly went off. He was struck in the stomach. Tipton was taken to the hospital in good condition, but later died. He was 26 years old.
Read more: http://cbs4indy.com/2016/06/28/former-colts-running-back-zurlon-tipton-dies-in-accidental-shooting-at-michigan-car-dealership/
Iggo
(47,552 posts)Guns don't kill people.
villager
(26,001 posts)nt
secondwind
(16,903 posts)KG
(28,751 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)haele
(12,649 posts)Especially if they were running backs in college and did a full 4 years. Wear and Tear at that position is brutal, and the average NFL "lifespan" is usually only 3 - 6 years before running backs shift to an easier position or just cash out. Most retire before 30.
(Dad was a running-back as a sophomore in high-school, finished out the last two years as a tackle when he started filling out. He used to say it hurt more to be a running back than a tackle; you were constantly moving.)
Haele
wolfie001
(2,227 posts)Sadly, will not end up in Canton.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)accidents that are so prevalent with semi pistols.
scscholar
(2,902 posts)Cops used to have a lot of accidents with guns just going off back when they carried revolvers.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)metroins
(2,550 posts)And he wouldn't have this problem. Revolvers are pretty safe, I just don't like them personally.
Poor gun safety.
The odds of actually needing your gun to protect you are much much lower than the odds of having an accident. If the extra second to cock a semi auto costs you your life, you were probably done anyway.
I'm super pro gun but much more safety conscious.
PJMcK
(22,035 posts)I'm super not a gun guy but I respect the way the 2nd Amendment and various laws have been interpreted. It is what it is, whether I approve or not.
Regardless, you wrote, "Poor gun safety." Doesn't it seem to happen far too often that it's negligence that results in too many gun deaths? I heard a story this morning (or yesterday or last week, etc.) where a 6 year old shot his younger brother with their mother's gun that wasn't secured. As you said, poor gun safety.
The gun owners I know, with one notable (asshole) exception, are responsible and respectful of the awesome power these weapons have. If only more American gun owners were aligned with my anecdotal experience.
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Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)You made the charge, now have the fortitude to back it up.
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Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Make a broad brush attack on DU members and fail to back it up. I am happy I have nobody on ignore. Civil discussion is best and hard to do if to have to censor people.
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)It's pure luck that the bullet did not go into and kill some innocent bystander.
Guns....when they're not keeping you safe, they're sometimes killing you.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Police say 80-year-old Donna Doris McQueen was accidentally shot and killed Friday night. The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office released McQueen's name after an autopsy.
The Milwaukie woman died from a single gunshot wound.
Noelle St. John, 21, was arrested in connection with the shooting. A Sheriff's release said St. John fired a gun at the Clackamas County Trails Apartment complex, 10425 S.E. Cook Street near Milwaukie, and hit McQueen. However, officers say McQueen was not the intended target of the shot.
http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2016/06/80-year-old_woman_killed_in_cl.html
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)Clearly it's the fact he was at a car dealership, which resulted in his death. Like swimming pools, cars are dangerous, and should be confiscated as they cause so many needless deaths.
Had he not been going to buy a car, he would still be alive.
locks
(2,012 posts)Cars and swimming pools should be improved for safety. One LITTLE difference: they are rarely invented, designed, manufactured or used with the purpose of killing human beings.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)If he hadn't had a loaded weapon in a duffle in his trunk, he wouldn't be dead.
Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)And by the way, there is nearly zero support for confiscating guns, from either side of the aisle.
The argument is over sales, background checks and registration. Even the scary "assault weapons ban" is about future sales, and there is NO proposal in Congress to confiscate existing guns. NONE.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Sales are not recorded. I have purchased many cars from private sellers and it was cash and hand over title. If I do not use it on public roads registration is not required.
Tortmaster
(382 posts)... for mechanics at car dealerships. A responsible mechanic gun owner present would have been able to draw a bead on that duffel bag and shoot it out of this poor man's hands.
Time to go all Australia on guns.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)"Nobody wants to take your guns"
Tortmaster
(382 posts)... an anonymous poster on the internet and a candidate for elected office, you probably shouldn't own a gun.
But, yes, I'm a gun-grabber, and there are lots of us out there and more joining our ranks every bloody day.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)wasn't able to prevent this tragedy.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)He could have shot the duffle bag in defense.
also people like this should have never been allowed into our country. Anyone who is born or raised or lives in the country where he is from should be deported immediately until we figure this out and feel safe again.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Human101948
(3,457 posts)okay, took care of that.
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)is knowing how to travel with them.
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onethatcares
(16,167 posts)you never know when they'll go to the dark side.
maxsolomon
(33,327 posts)Another pointless tragedy.
AntiBank
(1,339 posts)GREENWOOD, Ind. ( December 25, 2015) Former Indianapolis Colt Zurlon Z. Tipton was arrested early Friday morning and charged with criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon after he reportedly went to his girlfriends home and shot a round from a Colt AR-15 assault rifle into the house.
Greenwood Police responded to the call shortly before 1a.m. Friday in the 1400 block of Round Lake Road. Upon questioning of witnesses there, they discovered that Zurlon and his brother, Cortez Tipton, had left a party in Brownsburg upon receiving texts from Zurlons girlfriend that her life was in danger due to threatening text messages from her ex-boyfriend.
However further investigation revealed that the boyfriend was not inside the house and upon firing the rifle, both Zurlon and his brother fled the scene but were stopped shortly thereafter by Greenwood Police who arrested Zurlon and took him to Johnson County Jail.
niyad
(113,278 posts)sympathies to his loved ones.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)LisaL
(44,973 posts)We don't have any gun control, clearly.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)But in many cases, it takes an abused woman to file charges. Something many women are reluctant to do.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)TeddyR
(2,493 posts)It just isn't enforced.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)It's amazing this guy even made it to 26.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)jalan48
(13,862 posts)MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)he would be alive if there wasn't a fetish about carrying guns everywhere.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)As horrified as i am that he was killed ... I am grateful no innocent bystanders/customers/staff were injured or killed.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)No,it's not accidental. If you didn't have a gun it wouldn't have happened. Period.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)Granted it was completely preventable.
Normally these things are negligent not accidental.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)with apparently no safety whatever, and dies when that gun "accidentally" discharges, gets no sympathy from me.
We've got to stop using the word accident or accidental in cases like this. It's arrogant carelessness, pure and simple. My one positive thought is that at least it was the idiot who owned the gun who was the one killed, not some innocent and unfortunate bystander.
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)Stupidly. Carelessly. The only fortunate thing is that his carelessness with a deadly weapon did not kill anyone else, as it easily might have.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)It seems an accurate example of an undesirable or unfortunate happening that occurs unintentionally and usually results in harm-- which is the definition of accident. Though it may yet fall well within the parameters of additional descriptors, 'accident' is valid in both its use and the context.
A does not imply -B.
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)and then just tossed into a duffel bag. It was not an "accident" that it had no trigger guard or safety engaged. It was not an "accident" that the owner was not mindful of the fact that he had a deadly weapon in the bag, and handled it in a way that caused the gun to discharge.
"Unintentional" does not equate to "accidental". The owner of a gun bears moral (and should bear legal) responsibility for the forseeable consequences of the careless, reckless or negligent handling or discharge of that gun.
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)Negligent discharge waiting to happen, and it did.