Sometimes more than once,
I’m sure the second shot was only to confirm that the first shot really was just an accident!
CMC fnord!
More information:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-chief-shot-wife-moving-gun-bed-27965404
Well it looks like Glock (the gun used here) is guilty of fraudulent advertising. Here is what they say about their safety systems:
I wonder how many “accidental” gun deaths are really murders.
That was my first instinct as well, but nearest I can tell she’s not dead (yet), so if that was his plan he fucked it up.
You are correct. But stories do indicate that no one was seen nearby firing a weapon, leading me to assume that the projectile was on a ‘ballistic’ path, likely from a farther rather than closer distance away. It obviously penetrated his cranium (facial injuries are not-all-that-often instantly fatal IME as Level 1 Trauma-center CT-Tech for a number of years). I have done many 3-d CT ‘model-reconstruction-of-face-by-implant(s)’ scans on facial gunshots on folks that had their face torn off by point-blank shotgun/trauma blasts, etc.
When I said ‘top’ I was thinking to myself of the upper cranium or possibly into posterior cerebellum area (which is at back/lower brain area. Again, I admit bias from dealing with literally hundreds of head wounds from weapons, plus uncountable MVA’s/beatings, and such. Heck, one young adult male put a .44 into mouth and fired upwards. Ripped/removed his face to pieces, mushified his anterior cerebrum and the projectile was palpable under skin atop his uppermost forehead area (eerie to push it aside so I could rescan that particular area for reconning). He lived a much different life - like “crayons-and-paper for entertainment” (another popular term in the Trauma folks at places I worked). That is about all that could be expected of him from that point on, at best.
My bad on the assumption of ‘top’. Mea culpa. I let my experiences with gunshots-to-head bias my writing. Not too many places on head that cause ‘instant’ death as described other than through calvarium. And projectile probably was on a high-degree ballistic path. I know of one person in Central Idaho (a friend of a friend decades ago) who told of a death of a hunter/friend from a ‘stray bullet’. Hit him in upper/rear portion of cranium (ie ‘top’, so to speak. DRT - dead right there, as us medicals and/or LEO’s odten refer to situations.
More often than not, IME, ‘celebratory gunfiring’ is done at a reckless high-degree angle to ground into air - that’s what made me assume ‘top’, but it could have been more of a lateral impact, of course. It doesn’t really matter where overall, for sure 
I’d bet heavily that projectile damaged Circle-of-Willis area for such an instant drop/death of person. But, just my 20+ years of experiences in dealing with head wounds…
I just did some quick math. If you fired a .30-06 Springfield up at 70° (pretty close to vertical, for a normal, happy or drunk person), it looks to me like the bullet would be in flight for over two and a half minutes; it would come to rest on or near the ground over twenty miles from where it was shot; but most importantly, it would have a horizontal velocity in the neighborhood of 700fps (allowing a 20%+ loss to wind resistance). So it could easily deliver a fatal hit to the side of the head.
Your math is off. The maximum range of a .30-06 is maybe 3 miles, with a tailwind and downhill.
So where does it say the gun malfunctioned? Looks to me like the idiot pulled the trigger.
he had been a firearms instructor too.
I’ve heard it repeated a million times that a bullet from a 22 rifle with travel up to 1.5 miles if fired at a 45 degree angle. A 30-06 has about 2.3-2.4 times the muzzle velocity, so I’d say 3 miles is probably fairly accurate.
And here is a case showing people need to be nice to their dogs–otherwise the dog might shoot you:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/12/19/dog-shoots-man-in-freak-accident/
Silenus said: “Your math is off. The maximum range of a .30-06 is maybe 3 miles, with a tailwind and downhill." Your math is off. The maximum range of a .30-06 is maybe 3 miles, with a tailwind and downhill.”
I would agree in general with this. My step-dad was a large-city SWAT-sniper on-call while patrolling, and was always talking about the practice shots and maximum range(s) of the various long-barrels the ‘team’ used, usually 30-06-type weapons. I accompanied him to practices a few times and never was any shot tried at anywhere near a couple miles. And that no shot would be taken at such range in urban area due to unpredictability of wind, etc, during ‘flight time’ of the projectile.
Now, I do know of guns (yeah, true guns, LOL) such as the big-boy howitzers that can launch big heavy projectiles for ~ 10 to 15+ miles with outstanding accuracy. I spent a couple years at Ft Sill (aka Artillery Capital of World) and have stood on Mt Scott (tall ‘mountain’ w/ outstanding unobstructed view on north edge of Ft Sill, OK within the Wichita Mts National Preserve) and watched with binocs as batteries of guns mass fired-for-effect onto the other side of the base faaaar away. You could see impact site by the white smoke rising waaaay off in distance. Ft Sill is basically a longish rectangle to allow for such long safe practicing, or so I was told by a General making small talk with me as we waited for a firepower-demo during an International General’s Conference one day. Impressive ballistics and flight time, etc, for them big guns.
But it takes MUCH more energy to go such distance as 20 miles than what a 30-06 has within its cartridge relative to weight of projectile, I do believe.
Every argument they ever have from now on, she’s gonna rub that in his face… 
Here’s the video.
Luck the poor woman there didn’t get shot!
A corrections officer somehow managed to shoot his own daughter at a physical therapy session in Fairbanks, AK. Why he had a chambered round and the safety off is apparently a mystery at this point.
I’m not sure how many times it needs to be said, but many guns don’t have safety switches, and having a round chambered is the recommended way to do it (unless your gun doesn’t have a firing pin/drop safety). If someone is carrying, the expected configuration is round chambered/safety off. This is in line with the mindset of those who carry – if someone started shooting up the physical therapy office, see, the life of his 12 year old daughter could depend on milliseconds. The world is dangerous, never know when it might happen, aim for center mass, etc…
Someone did start shooting up the physical therapy office.
Maybe the physical therapist didn’t have a round chambered.