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I heard about this this morning from the place I buy parts. I'm in the transmission business as well.

The story I hear was supposedly told by the shooter, to the guy I buy my parts from. Here's what I was told. Shooter is a CHL holder with a 1911 (.45ACP). Apparently the co-worker was poking him with a knife in an attempt to play around. For some reason that is not yet clear, the CHL holder pulled a gun and was showing it to the other guys (3 people other than the CHL in the room at the time). The guy that had the knife supposedly grabbed ahold of the barrel of the gun as the CHL holder was holding it. The shootee then pulled the gun towards himself and it was at this point that somehow the gun discharged striking the shootee at point blank range.

The shootee went down and bled to death in just a few minutes. Everyone's story was the same, that they were just playing around and the gun discharged. Now, 2 lives are ruined. 1 man is dead, and the other will have to live with this the rest of his life. Not to mention any potential civil action that may be brought against him by the family of the deceased.

I can't begin to understand why you would pull a loaded gun, with the hammer cocked, and the safety off, and then "play" with it in the presence of other people, and part of that "play" included pointing it at someone else. Supposedly the police questioned everyone and released the CHL holder as it was apparently an "accident". Playing with a loaded gun, that is cocked, with the safety off, while pointing it at someone is not an accident. It's criminal negligence at the least, or involuntary manslaughter, or homicide at the worst. Anyway, that's the story I heard as it was supposedly told by the actual shooter to another. Don't know what is fact, and what is not.

I also just talked to the guy that delivers my torque converters. He was telling me that he had heard a little more about the story and that the shootee was shot directly through the heart at point blank range. Again, I can't confirm, nor deny, any of this as I'm just hearing about it second-hand. Be safe out there.