Firearm Safety Instructor Accidentally Shoots Wife Dead then Turns Gun on Himself

[Turd Fergusen]

A suburban Chicago man who held firearms training classes accidentally shot and killed his wife while cleaning his gun — then turned the weapon on himself, according to police.

Simeon Hendrickson, 61, was working on one of his guns at his home on Dalton Lane in Bollingbrook on Saturday afternoon when it accidentally discharged and the bullet struck his wife, Laurie Hendrickson, 60, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

“Simeon Hendrickson then took his own life with the handgun,” police said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene, while his wife died at a local hospital, cops added.

It was unclear if Simeone called 911, or if one of his neighbors heard the gunfire and called for help.

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Firearm safety instructor accidentally shoots wife dead then turns gun on himself

A suburban Chicago man who held firearms training classes accidentally shot and killed his wife while cleaning his gun — then turned the weapon on himself, according to police.

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[Metalfan]

That is awful,he must have loved her alot! Rare in this world nowadays.

 

[DaveL]

Yeah, I'm going to go with "not an accident" on this one.

 

[Alxprkrkrls]

How do they know that’s what happened and not a murder suicide? Also, isn’t the first rule of handling a gun check to see if it’s loaded?

 

[Symmachus]

Why do all these wife-killers come from specifically Bolingbrook, Illinois? Yes, I'm thinking about that droopy, terse, unlikeable cop fella who married four times, with his last two wives getting either murdered or disappeared.

Welcome to Bolingbrook, Illinois: where women who marry cops and firearm instructors are never heard from again...

Okay, so maybe I can only think of two such incidents having happened in Bolingbrook (or three, if you count each for the two wives of the one arrogant prick cop with a punchable face that even a basset hound thinks is too saggy, and whose favorite football player is probably still O.J. Simpson. I mean, 2,000 rushing yards in a single season is still pretty impressive, even by today's standards). But still, three such stories is an alarmingly high amount to come from some random, forgettable, midwestern suburb that few people outside of its immediate locales would otherwise think about or want to seek out information for.

To any of you reading: have you ever been approached by, say, a young married couple, a few of your friends, or maybe that distant relative you haven't seen for the last eight months to two years who is right in front of you at that Easter family dinner; and they have told you that they are vacationing to Bolingbrook, Illinois?

Yeah, I thought not.

Sincerely,

-A guy who grew up in a state, slathered in corn fields, right next to Illinois

 

[Freyja]

How do they know that’s what happened and not a murder suicide? Also, isn’t the first rule of handling a gun check to see if it’s loaded?

Yes.
1.) Treat all firearms as loaded.
2.) Never point a firearm at anything you don't want to shoot.
3.) Keep your finger off the trigger until you have your target in sight.
4.) Consider what is beyond your target.

I wonder if he had maybe tried to clean a striker fired weapon, forgot to clear the chamber and had a slam fire? And was it really an accident? He was a firearms safety instructor so he had to know what he was doing.

 

[DamagedGoods]

Yeah... if he's dead, how on earth would they know that he shot her accidentally? Was it recorded or something?

 

[AliCatClick]

My first thought is that it wasn't accident. BUT it said that his wife died later at the hospital, so the only thing I can think of is she was watching him clean it and saw the shot happen and thus maybe would've been able to tell authorities/medical personnel that it was an accident? But unless that happened, I don't believe for a second that it wasn't intentional.

 

[Bipedalprimate]

for some reason this popped into my head

 

[Sejanus]

Oh he sounds like he was a terrific instructor

To be honest though, I'm not buying into the whole accidental shooting thing.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

My guess is that this all boils down to the legalities of what happened.

Murder means there was premeditation and intent to kill. How are you going to prove that in this case? Did he really murder his wife, then stage a gun cleaning scene and off himself in order to preserve a positive reputation for himself, it's possible. I agree the fact that she died in the hospital makes this even more fishy, in that if you believe the narrative why would he not shoot her again to "end the suffering", or fail to realize that she was still alive?? So, you can't charge a dead person with manslaughter, and so it becomes an accident/suicide. They probably searched the property and his internet viewing, didn't find anything suspicious, and settled on the narrative that someone so familiar with gun safety must have just been beyond distraught after such a careless accident that couldn't live with themselves and abruptly ended their lives.

I would still be interested in hearing who called 911 and what was said.

Bonus conspiracy theory: What if she staged it to kill husband and tried to wound herself for that narrative, but it ended up being fatal?????