A private security guard at the Arapahoe County Courthouse accidentally wounded another security officer while using his pistol to calibrate a security scanner Wednesday morning.
The Olympic Security Services officer sent his a 9mm semi-automatic handgun under the X-ray scanner, then lifted the gun and snapped back in the magazine, firing into the floor in the process, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Department said.
Shrapnel hit a nearby officer, who was treated and released from a hospital for a minor injury.
“Olympic Security has verified that this is not an approved machine calibration technique,” the Sheriff’s Department stated.
The security officer, 26-year-old Christopher Reed, was charged with reckless endangerment, a class 3 misdemeanor.
The gunfire happened at about 7 a.m., before the building opened to the public, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
