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Navy SEAL accidentally shoots himse

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A Navy SEAL is on a life support machine after accidentally shooting himself in the head while showing a gun to a woman he had met in a bar.

The 22-year-old, named locally as Geno Clayton, was playing with a 9mm handgun he believed was unloaded when he pulled the trigger. He was rushed to Scripps Memorial Hospital, in La Jolla, San Diego, where initially he was reported to have died. The shooting happened about 2am at a house in Pacific Beach, a popular ocean-front community north of the city.

San Diego police said the sailor had got out several weapons to show the woman and despite her asking him to put them away he insisted they were safe.

He was handling the gun and pointed it at his head to show her it wasn’t loaded when the tragedy happened. Both had been drinking at a local bar earlier that night. The SEAL, believed to be the son of a local businessman, had just completed his basic qualification training and had been assigned to one of the special forces' elite teams. Tributes to Clayton were posted on his Facebook page where one message said: 'RIP Gene. You were a great guy, everybody will miss you greatly.'

Vietnam veteran and retired Marine David Miller told 10News that no one who's been drinking should handle weapons.

'That's when your judgment's impaired and your weapon should be put away,' said Miller.

'If you follow basic safety rules, you don't have accidents. In other words, you don't point the weapon someplace you don't intend to shoot it and you always assume it's loaded.'

In a statement, Commodore Collin Green, commander of Naval Special Warfare Group One, said the community was 'deeply saddened' by the incident and extends 'our hearts and prayers' to the family. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is now investigating the shooting

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083008/Navy-SEAL-accidentally-shoots-head-showing-gun-woman-met-bar.html#ixzz1igYaO0Qr

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083008/Navy-SEAL-accidentally-shoots-head-showing-gun-woman-met-bar.html#ixzz1igYT0rcf

Submitted on 01/06/2012

Submitted by: Mark Harritt
Reference: Daily Mail - 12:21 PM on 6th January 2012

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