Moments later, the gun lay shining on the ground, an officer's shot left a bullet hole in a nearby car, and the man, 21, was added to the list of those arrested in the sweep — all before 11 a.m.
When the magazine is removed from a semi-automatic weapon, it can leave a bullet in the firing chamber (whence the common lament: "I didn't know the gun was loaded").
In November 2013, an agent mistakenly left a bullet from his gun in the hotel room of a woman he met in a Washington bar and alerted hotel staff when she would not let him back into the room.
After firing more than seventy times — "I heard every shot," Felicia Sanders said — Roof pointed the gun at his own head only to discover that he had not left a bullet for himself.
A gunshot was fired in the Bronx school and left a bullet hole in a classroom floor but caused no injuries.
In Thursday's shooting, a 41-year-old St . Louis Countypolice officer suffered a shoulder wound and a 32-year-old colleague from the nearby Webster Groves Police Department sustained a facial wound that left a bullet lodged near his ear.
He had left a bullet in the hotel room of a woman he was seeing; having consumed alcohol that night, he tried to go back into the room and, intoxicated, was stopped by the hotel's security team.
