A Texas man accidentally shot a child while officiating a wedding in Lancaster County on Saturday, the sheriff’s office says.

Chief Deputy Ben Houchin said deputies were sent to a wedding at Hillside Events near Denton on a report of a gunshot wound.

Deputies learned that 62-year-old Michael Gardner, the wedding’s officiant, fired a gun to get everyone’s attention.

“He was going to fire in the air, and as he did that, it slipped and went off,” Houchin said.

The gun was loaded with a blank that Gardner made with gunpowder and glue.

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    1 year ago

    What gets me about that is, yeah, they didn’t check the barrel, but when they pulled the dummy rounds out to put in the blanks why didn’t anyone notice that one of the casings was missing its bullet? Shouldn’t that be an easy thing to spot?

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      When you unload a revolver you’re looking at it from behind, and if you just dump the casings into your hand you might not notice. Maybe that happened.

      Or maybe they only replaced one bullet with a blank.

      Or maybe they were just lazy and negligent.