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This was the headline in Wednesday's news here in SC. Just what we don't need. A gun with a mind of its own. Goes off because it doesn't like the music.
This was a stupid, dumb, inexcusable act. But charged with murder? Seems to me negligent homicide would have been a more accurate charge. Any lawyers out there?
http://greenvillenews.com/news/19062100.htm
Wednesday, June 21, 2000
Greenville News
Apartment dweller's gun kills sleeping woman next door
By April E. Moorefield
STAFF WRITER
amoorefi@greenvillenews.com
A man told deputies he was reaching to turn down his stereo when the gun he kept under his pillow accidentally went off early Tuesday and blasted through a wall in his apartment, killing a woman next door as she slept beside her husband.
Sandra Galezo, 27, of Barrington Park Apartments died from a single gunshot to her head, Chief Deputy Coroner Mike Ellis said.
Her next-door neighbor, Cory Robriegel Jackson, 20, of 1201 Cedar Lane Road, Apt. B72, was charged with murder.
Galezo's husband, Juan Carlos Marin, told deputies he was awakened about 12:35 a.m. by a loud "pop" and found his wife unconscious and bleeding beside him. Investigators later found a bullet hole in the wall behind the bed.
Originally from Colombia, Galezo came to the Upstate on a temporary work visa, authorities said. Her husband declined to talk Tuesday about his wife's death.
In his statement to investigators, Jackson said a pistol he keeps tucked under his pillow fired accidentally after he reached to turn down the volume on his stereo when someone in an apartment below him tapped on their ceiling, said Sgt. Mike Brown of the Greenville County Sheriff's Office.
A .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol was recovered from Jackson's black Mitsubishi 3000 GT in the parking lot, authorities said.
Jackson is being held in the Greenville County Detention Center awaiting a bond hearing before a Circuit Court judge.
Staff writer April E. Moorefield covers crime, breaking news and public safety in Greenville County. She can be reached at 298-4801.
This was a stupid, dumb, inexcusable act. But charged with murder? Seems to me negligent homicide would have been a more accurate charge. Any lawyers out there?
http://greenvillenews.com/news/19062100.htm
Wednesday, June 21, 2000
Greenville News
Apartment dweller's gun kills sleeping woman next door
By April E. Moorefield
STAFF WRITER
amoorefi@greenvillenews.com
A man told deputies he was reaching to turn down his stereo when the gun he kept under his pillow accidentally went off early Tuesday and blasted through a wall in his apartment, killing a woman next door as she slept beside her husband.
Sandra Galezo, 27, of Barrington Park Apartments died from a single gunshot to her head, Chief Deputy Coroner Mike Ellis said.
Her next-door neighbor, Cory Robriegel Jackson, 20, of 1201 Cedar Lane Road, Apt. B72, was charged with murder.
Galezo's husband, Juan Carlos Marin, told deputies he was awakened about 12:35 a.m. by a loud "pop" and found his wife unconscious and bleeding beside him. Investigators later found a bullet hole in the wall behind the bed.
Originally from Colombia, Galezo came to the Upstate on a temporary work visa, authorities said. Her husband declined to talk Tuesday about his wife's death.
In his statement to investigators, Jackson said a pistol he keeps tucked under his pillow fired accidentally after he reached to turn down the volume on his stereo when someone in an apartment below him tapped on their ceiling, said Sgt. Mike Brown of the Greenville County Sheriff's Office.
A .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol was recovered from Jackson's black Mitsubishi 3000 GT in the parking lot, authorities said.
Jackson is being held in the Greenville County Detention Center awaiting a bond hearing before a Circuit Court judge.
Staff writer April E. Moorefield covers crime, breaking news and public safety in Greenville County. She can be reached at 298-4801.