A Bedford Heights police officer is considering himself lucky after he was injured by celebratory gunfire. The department is now warning about the dangers of firing a gun into the air.
“I’m used to, in the Greater Cleveland area, people shooting firearms in the air to celebrate the New Year,” said Bedford Heights Police Officer Elshawn Williams. “But it’s highly illegal and they shouldn’t be doing it at all.”
Unsure of where the noise was coming from, Williams quickly left his parking spot. None of the windows or windshield were broken, but the pain in his neck prompted him to announce the situation on the radio.Another officer checked Williams and discovered a bullet had grazed his neck and lodged into his bulletproof vest.
“I’m still sore. It’s a very superficial wound. It doesn’t look like much, it’s kind of like a welt from the projectile burning and moving as fast as it did,” he explained. “The natural thought is ‘what if? What if it was different?’ I think about that as well.”
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