Man kills self in front of children at Bellevue gun-safety class

[DonViejo]

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer


By Levi Pulkkinen, seattlepi.com staff Published: Mar 14, 2013 at 10:06 AM PDT

BELLEVUE, Wash. - A 50-year-old man shot and killed himself during a gun-safety class at a Bellevue gun range.

Brian J. Parry is believed to have shot himself in the head with a pistol Sunday during a class at West Coat Armory, a gun range and dealer with outlets in Bellevue and Issaquah.

Bellevue police spokeswoman Carla Iafrate confirmed that police are investigating the shooting but refused to release details. She said the investigation into Parry’s death is ongoing.

The King County Medical Examiner’s Office earlier this week ruled Parry’s death a suicide. He died of a contact gunshot wound to the head.

In an email, a man describing himself as a witness to the shooting said the dead man – identified by the Medical Examiner’s Office as Parry – stood in front of more than a dozen people participating in the class and ended his life.



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[bunnies]

1. Those kids will be traumatized for life.

I'm trying hard to have sympathy for Mr. Parry... since I obviously can't comprehend his mindset... but why the FUCK traumatize children that way?!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. There are a lot of people that go to the gun range to commit suicide....

Then there are those who have a complete personality change when you hand them a gun.

Then there are those who "just do it" as if they don't really believe in it. These are the types that are so self centered they can't picture the world existing without them so of course they can pop a cap in their crown and walk away from it. They're Superman.

[Paul E Ester]

7. someone committed suicide at the range in south san francisco

Rented a gun and shot himself.

Since then they will not rent you a gun if you come by yourself unless you bring your own gun too.

The assumption is that you're not going to kill yourself at the range, if you already have a gun or come with a buddy.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. That's become the norm now.

[onehandle]

3. Guns in schools. What could go wrong?

At least he didn't take them with him.

That will happen again. The odds have risen with the idiocy of the right to put guns in classrooms.

[bobclark86]

9. And where did you get "guns in schools" from in this story?

It was at a private business... some people just see what they want to see, though.

[onehandle]

11. Gun nuts want gun training and fellow gun nuts going Rambo in schools.

I didn't say it was in a school. It's the NRAGOP that want this scenario in schools.

[samsingh]

12. true

[mikeysnot]

4. and they wonder why we call them

GUN NUTS!

[Walk away]

5. If only he had another gun he could have defended himself from...

himself.

That's a lesson in gun safety those kids will never forget. I'm guessing that after seeing that the kids with brains will never go near a gun again.

[Dr. Strange]

6. Okay kids, let's start off with what NOT to do.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Those poor kids. :^( Why would he do that to them?

[samsingh]

13. why do people love guns so much in the first place?

[cthulu2016]

10. Demonstrating the first rule of gun safety...

do not shoot yourself in the head.

[Crunchy Frog]

15. More effective lesson than bargained for?