Man dies after gun fires accidentally while leaving Lenoir City High School graduation

[brooklynite]

WATE Knoxville

LENOIR CITY, Tenn. (WATE) — A man who attended the Lenoir City High School graduation Friday night died after a gun he was illegally carrying on school property fired accidentally, according to Lenoir City Police Chief Don White.

Christopher Sean Lampkin was shot in his right inner thigh when his gun went off after watching the commencement at the football field, according to a Lenoir City Police Department report obtained by WATE 6 on Monday.

A bullet from a .38 caliber Derringer struck a femoral artery causing significant blood loss. The death has been ruled accidental.

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The narrative in the report states that Lampkin and a relative were sitting on steps waiting for their Uber to arrive when Lampkin stood up to put his jacket on. The family member told police that’s when, “… she heard a small ‘pop.’ ”

[MarineCombatEngineer]

1. Karma's a b***h and then you die.

Sever the Femoral Artery and you have a very short window to death.

[bottomofthehill]

11. One of the most incredible stories of The Boston Marathon Bombing.

One of the officers responding was shot (friendly fire). Instead of waiting for an ambulance the cops pilot him in a cruiser and brought him to a local hospital where a vascular surgeon was in the OR by chance and after a brutal hour long battle in the ER, they able to clamp him continue blood infusions and save his life. Dickie Donohue, he had to have one hell of a will to live.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

14. Very lucky man,

glad he survived.

Femoral Arteries tend to bleed out PDQ.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I'm glad the man carrying the gun was the one killed.

Not anyone else.

[riversedge]

3. I read the story about this probably Sat but did not know he died. whow. so sad

for the family. I have to wonder why he had a gun on school property. That is usually forbidden.

[Orrex]

4. Another responsible gun owner perishes

[Baitball Blogger]

5. So, he latched the .38 to his inner thigh with the gun pointing up?

[bottomofthehill]

13. No, it would have been pointing down to his femoral artery

[Buns_of_Fire]

16. More than likely it was in his pants pocket.

It was a derringer, just the right size for stuffing in your pocket with the loose change. Well and good, until one accidentally blows their nuts off while reaching in to pay for that fudge pop at the Good Humor truck.

[Earth-shine]

6. Time to bring this video out again - I Just Shot Myself the song

[MarineCombatEngineer]

7. Carrying a derringer in a pocket is not only dangerous, it's outright stupid.

Derringers don't have safeties and are subject firing at the slightest bump.

[Fullduplexxx]

8. If only there was a good guy with a gun there to stop him

[ChazInAz]

9. Sounds like the good old "Darwin Award Carry".

Stuff the gun in your waistband without a holster.
Insanely dangerous.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

12. Especially a derringer.

Cleansing the Gene pool.

[madinmaryland]

10. I think that qualifies for a Darwin Award.

[ChazInAz]

15. I thought so.

Femoral artery or losing genitals, the winner is still removed from the gene pool.

[sir pball]

17. Wait, I thought "shoot them in the leg" was the non-lethal alternative!

Can we finally put that myth to bed? A thigh shot is as deadly as chest shot, period. If you're gonna put a bullet into someone you intend to kill them, full stop.

Also, in this case, nothing of value was lost.

[marble falls]

18. Live stupid, die stupid.

[elocs]

19. When I was in high school back in '67 I walked to school with a classmate

and we each had brothers in grade school. One day he was cleaning his rifle and his brother was killed when he got shot in the head. Damn, when you're 15, what do you say to somebody that has that happen. He came back to school in a few days which was good because the longer he had waited, the harder it would have been.