WARREN, Pa. (AP) — A northwestern Pennsylvania jail guard has been suspended and could be fired after his gun accidentally fired in a retail store.
The (Warren) Times Observer reports the guard was suspended without pay Tuesday by the Warren County Prison Board.
They’re not identifying the officer until police in Millcreek Township, near Erie, charge him for the gun incident in a Gander Mountain store on Feb. 7.
That’s where Millcreek police say the guard’s gun accidentally went off while he was in a changing room at the store. Nobody was hurt.
The part-time officer was off duty and had just purchased a shirt with a holster built into it when the gun went off.
The prison board says the guard will be fired if he’s eventually convicted of criminal charges.