The 22-year-old, named locally as Geno Clayton, was playing with a 9mm handgun he believed was unloaded when he pulled the trigger.
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Navy SEAL Accidentally Shoots Himself in the Head While Showing Off Gun
A Navy SEAL is on a life support machine after accidentally shooting himself in the head while showing a gun to a woman he had met in a bar.
The 22-year-old, named locally as Geno Clayton, was playing with a 9mm handgun he believed was unloaded when he pulled the trigger.
He was rushed to Scripps Memorial Hospital, in La Jolla, San Diego, where initially he was reported to have died.
The shooting happened about 2am at a house in Pacific Beach, a popular ocean-front community north of the city.
San Diego police said the sailor had got out several weapons to show the woman and despite her asking him to put them away he insisted they were safe.
He was handling the gun and pointed it at his head to show her it wasn’t loaded when the tragedy happened.
Both had been drinking at a local bar earlier that night.
The SEAL, believed to be the son of a local businessman, had just completed his basic qualification training and had been assigned to one of the special forces’ elite teams.
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