Man Says He Was Cleaning a Marijuana Grow When He Found a Firearm and Accidentally Shot Himself in the Leg

Gunshot Victim featureOn Thanksgiving Day about 8:48 p.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department received word that a man with a gunshot wound was being taken by his father in a private vehicle down Alderpoint Road to the Jerold Phelps Community Hospital. According to a report over the scanner at the time, the son had accidentally shot himself in the leg.

According to Samantha Karges, spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Department, deputies then responded to the hospital.

“The victim, a 20-year-old male, told deputies that he was cleaning a property somewhere in Southern Humboldt when he discovered a firearm,” she explained. “While handling the firearm, the gun reportedly accidentally discharged, striking the victim in the leg.”

According to Karges, “[T]he victim told us that he was cleaning a former marijuana grow [when the accident occurred] and it took about an hour or more to get to the hospital.”

She said the victim was unable to give an exact location of where the marijuana grow was located.

When asked to explain the situation in more depth, Karges added, “Clearly there are some holes to the story, but we are only able to do so much when we have uncooperative victims and witnesses. Of course, if anyone has information indicating that this was not accidental, they are encouraged to call us.”

Karges reassured us, “The victim is expected to survive his injuries.” She added that the case is still under investigation.

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Yipicya
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Yipicya
3 years ago

… And his leg.

Thank you, I’ll be here all week, tip your waitress.

haha
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haha
3 years ago

You don’t want to go to Phelps.

Screwed Sideways
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Screwed Sideways
3 years ago
Reply to  haha

Mostly, what happens to GSW patients at JPH, is they die…

Lucky it hit an extremity, hope you don’t lose your limb. Glad you didn’t shoot yourself in the head!

Get ye to a real hospital, ASAP! Good luck!

Like I said, mixing marijuana with dangerous tools is kinda inadvisable…

Buck
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Buck
3 years ago

Without a tourniquet extremity wounds cause many annual deaths. You hit an artery and many times you are past the point of no return in 1-2 minutes. You’ll live much longer with a bullet hole through your collapsed lung until tension pneumothorax takes hold.

Screwed Sideways
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Screwed Sideways
3 years ago
Reply to  Buck

Agree, and a GSW is a good thing to not have under any conditions…

Guns are dangerous in the hands of the “not careful”, and I wonder about this guy’s story, as much as I wonder about all stories told in SoHum to LEOS…

I did witness the victim of a GSW at JPH, gut-shot with a tiny automatic pistol, the patient bled all over the ER, was transferred to Redwood, eventually discharged with the bullet removed, and later died from the incurable infection in the gut.

Bullets are unpredictable, can kill now or later, and guns are a crude tool to rely upon, if personal safety is desired.

I no longer feel competent to own firearms, and once negligently discharged a Glock 19 that I thought was cleared, seriously injuring my desk and scaring myself into only owning single action pistols, which I eventually disposed of completely.

Guns are not for the intoxicated, the unindoctrinated, persons who refuse to practice safety, or for persons who think they can’t be hurt by their tools.

Screwed Sideways
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Screwed Sideways
3 years ago

The Glock 19 is perfectly safe, with no round in the chamber!

I feel most comfortable with my High Standard .22, which is over 40 years old and for which I own no bullets. I do still have an S&W CS-9, somewhere, could probably find the magazine in 10 minutes or so, and I think there’s a half-cup of hollow points, uh, in the garage…

Mendocino Mamma
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Mendocino Mamma
3 years ago

Got to love it! Can’t tell you how to get to the garden or where the garden is at but he is there cleaning it up! LOL LOL LOL. Made my morning

Farce
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Farce
3 years ago

Some people remember the old ways. I give him props for that. How would spilling the beans and revealing that info to the authorities ever help anybody? It would not. They are from the government and they are not here to help….

Sleepy Alligator
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Sleepy Alligator
3 years ago
Reply to  Farce

Amen to that!

10 toes
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10 toes
3 years ago
Reply to  Farce

Church 🎯

Perspective
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Perspective
3 years ago
Reply to  Farce

Why even say it was a grow??

JO
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JO
3 years ago
Reply to  Perspective

Of course it was an “old” grow he was cleaning up, not a current illegal grow.

Since he “found” the gun, did he hand it over to authorities?

Kimp
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Kimp
3 years ago
Reply to  Perspective

The reason he told that story is because they believe it.

Norm sxtn
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Norm sxtn
3 years ago
Reply to  Perspective

Ya I agree. Besides shooting yourself highly unlikely… Only idiots play quickdraw with a loaded gun

Just Sayin
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Just Sayin
3 years ago
Reply to  Farce

Or, he was trying to rob it, and got shot…… which is highly more likely.

Kimp
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Kimp
3 years ago

Back in the day some growers would blindfold their trimmers in and out and unpermitted growers are feeling pretty stressed and vulnerable. Those days convinced lots of people to not work in the industry, but there are plenty that would. I can guess that staff at that hospital in particular, did not hear that explanation for a GSW for the first time that day.

Big Bang
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3 years ago

Never, never let your gun, pointed be, at any one. Not an accidental discharge, as there is no such animal, it was a NEGLIGENT discharge! Keep your boogerhook off the bangswitch, numbnuts…

Free estimates
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Free estimates
3 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

This is a prime example of how young people need to be educated about proper handling of firearms. I learned the four rules in boy scouts when I was six, have yet to injure myself or anyone else (knocks on wood). Hope that young man recovers quickly and learns his lesson.

Willow Creeker
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Willow Creeker
3 years ago
Reply to  Free estimates

I got a smack on the head as a kid if I ever swung the gun in the direction of anyone by accident. When you learn that as a kid it stays with you. If more young people were taught to respect guns and use them correctly, there would be less fascination with high powered automatic guns, I think. And less problems with guns in our society, maybe.

Jason
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Jason
3 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

OMG, I learned two new words today!
Boogerhook and bangswitch.

De
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De
3 years ago
Reply to  Jason

🤣🤣

King of Staten Island
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King of Staten Island
3 years ago

“I fell into a thorn bush!”

pedro
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pedro
3 years ago

Boogerhook is my new favorite word

Willie Bray
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3 years ago

🕯🌳Got stop smoking what you grow or stop covering for the people trying to rob you.🖖🖖

Sonnyb
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Sonnyb
3 years ago

Puff puff pass. No wonder every time a recount is done more votes for biden our found. Some body else has been mysteriously shot in the leg to. Talk about a stolen system.

Thesteve4761
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Thesteve4761
3 years ago
Reply to  Sonnyb

What?

Puest
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Puest
3 years ago
Reply to  Thesteve4761

Exactly WTF I was wondering!!!! What do ANY of the statements he made have to do with the article they were supposed to comments about??? Inquiring minds, or in my case what little is left of a Mind, want to know!!!

Shawn Cherry
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Shawn Cherry
3 years ago

Maybe he did get shot by someone else. And instead of rely on shitty cops to help him find the person he’s gonna take care of it himself. Or he’s just an idiot. Both are very likely.

Asst chief
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Asst chief
3 years ago

Rest assured he is on medi cal because he doesn’t declare his income ,doesnt pay taxes, pleads poverty and doesnt pay for his own healthcare. The reason healthcare is so terrible up here is because no one pays . Everyone is scamming medi cal.

Antichrist
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Antichrist
3 years ago
Reply to  Asst chief

They guy is 20 years old, should be on parents policy till 26 according to Ahca.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago

“Guns” do not accidentally discharge.
“Negligent people” accidentally discharge a gun.

Puest
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Puest
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

When I was growing up, around & with guns in general, Gun Control was hitting what you’re trying to aim at & NOT SHOOTING YOURSELF with the damned thing

Dragonfly
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Dragonfly
3 years ago

I was always worried about leaving my scene during Thanksgiving. I heard of guy who got cleaned out while having turkey away. Sounds like this kid thought he was going to clean up someone else’s grow and got shot in the leg instead 🤣

Legallettuce
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Legallettuce
3 years ago

I always clean my former marijuana scenes at night after a coma induced Thanksgiving dinner. Thankfully Dad was a hop, skip and a jump away.

NeeSee
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NeeSee
3 years ago

He wasn’t cleaning nothing he was there to rip it off and they shot him…period.

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  NeeSee

Ahhh! I get it. Cleaning up like Wade Harris helped clean….got it!

Charlie
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Charlie
3 years ago

Guest is exactly right about ripping a grow vs robbing a bank. Rob a bank and you get on the FBI shit list but rob a pot farm? As long as nobody gets hurt it’s local law only and they are mighty busy already.

In “the good ol’ days” the victims couldn’t go to the cops for fear of being busted themselves so it was a slam -dunk. Especially since so many of the potential victims were pretty peaceable folks and their crop was off hidden in the woods.

Farce
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Farce
3 years ago
Reply to  Charlie

On the other hand some “peaceful” people hated rip-offs so bad they were able to muster up enough gumption to kill them. Many rip-offs are buried in these hills. And maybe one drunken night it was leaked to the neighbor what happened. And maybe that neighbor thanked that enforcer for looking out for the neighborhood, insisting his lips were forever sealed and insisting he never wanted to know where the grave was. And then maybe that neighbor forever paid tribute to that guy…for keeping the neighborhood safe and protected. Maybe an altered tale of the event made it out as a cautionary story for would-be rip-offs -should they ever think of setting foot in that neighborhood again…Many may go out to rip but few return

Sohumjoe
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Sohumjoe
3 years ago
Reply to  Farce

Thats old school right there. I love it. And I’m smellin’ what you’re steppin’ in

Big Bang
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3 years ago

Negligent people negligently discharge their weapon, guns do NOT go bang by their lonesome! (except for an 870 Rem 12 gauge with a worn sear we called “Hairy”)

Sekhmet
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Sekhmet
3 years ago

Boogerhook and Bangswitch! hahahahaHAAAAAAAA

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