The FBI agent loses his weapon during dancing, and shoots someone by mistake

 

An FBI agent's backflip at a club looked pretty impressive-until he lost his gun and accidentally shot someone.

Footage of the off-duty agent dancing enthusiastically was captured by a bystander, in a video which has been shared thousands of times.

A FBI officer who was flaunting gymnastic move moves before a pack in a Denver club unintentionally shot a man in the leg after his firearm tumbled from his pocket amid a reverse somersault. Wearing easygoing pants and a shirt, he springs in reverse onto his hands.

The victim was shot in the lower leg and transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to a Denver police news release.The spokesperson for the district attorney's office, Ken Lane, would not speculate on possible charges the FBI agent could face.

FBI Denver spokeswoman Amy Sanders said the incident is a personnel matter for the FBI and the police will lead the investigation. It's unclear whether the off-duty agent had been drinking at the time.

As illustrated in the video below, the agent did not have his weapon securely holstered. It was tucked in the rear of his waist-band and flew out when he did a back flip on the dance-floor at the Mile High Spirits Distillery. When he bent down to grab it, the gun discharged, firing a round across the floor, reportedly hitting or grazing a patron in the leg. The video shows the agent tucking the gun back in his belt, raising his hands while smiling sheepishly, and walking away. . . not in the direction of where the shot was fired, not seeming to notice a person was wounded.

Clearly, he was not engaged in his official duties on the dance floor. He was reportedly arrested by local police and later released into the custody of an FBI supervisor. He has been whisked out of Colorado.

source: CNN