FORT WORTH, TEXAS — A 47-year-old insurance company worker accidentally fired his gun in his office cubicle, shooting himself in both legs, police said.
The man, who wasn’t identified, had put his .45-caliber gun into his jacket pocket and then draped the jacket over the back of his chair Tuesday morning, said Brett McGuire, Lake Worth police chief. The gun discharged as the man settled into his chair.
The bullet passed through the man’s legs and a bookcase before lodging in the wall of a cubicle.
He “just felt the need to carry it,” McGuire said. “He wasn’t having problems with his bosses or co-workers that we know of.”
Police have no record of the man being licensed to carry a concealed weapon. He also appears to have violated his company’s policy against taking guns to work without company officials’ permission.
Detectives will wait until the man recovers from his apparently non-life-threatening injuries before deciding whether to pursue charges, McGuire said.
