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Man Shot After Firing Gun in Residential Neighborhood


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Wake County sheriff's deputies are investigating a shooting that witnesses say may have been accidentally self-inflicted.

Brandon Cobb, 20, was shot at about 3:45 p.m. Monday in the back yard of a house on Hidden Hollow Lane near Knightdale.

The house's owner told WRAL that Cobb was visiting her 16-year-old daughter, who was home alone.

The girl said Cobb went into the back yard and fired two shots from a .22-caliber handgun. One shot ricocheted and struck him in the neck, the girl said.

Crime-scene investigators spent hours collecting evidence and searching for clues inside the house and in the back yard.

"It's unsettling. It makes you nervous when you are at work and you come home and see all these police cars and you don't know what to think,” neighbor Sam Clark said.

The victim was transported to WakeMed.  His condition was unknown Monday night.

RELATED TOPICS: Knightdale, Wake County

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Bullets can bounce off of hard objects and hit the person shooting...has happened many times. Even happens at gun ranges when metal supports are hit or concrete shooting lines etc......stranger things do happen.

The law will be a local ordinance and those are hard to find on the internet.

"Im looking for it, alot of laws to go through so im trying to narrow my search. I have been told this my more than one LEO but watched another that was totaly unaware. When I find it ill post a new blog."

You might be looking for a while!! It may be a county ordinance somewhere, but I don't think it's state law.

Im looking for it, alot of laws to go through so im trying to narrow my search. I have been told this my more than one LEO but watched another that was totaly unaware. When I find it ill post a new blog.

"Yes it is illegal to discharge a fire arm within 150 yds of a home."

Will you please post the law?

I started going out with this gal wen I was 20 and she was 26. We got married a few years later, 3 years late we had our first child then we had 4 more children. It has been 40 years of great marriage. So whats the big deal of 20/16? The vast majority of folks we know have at least a 4 year age difference in the age of the couples. That is because of the fact that there is a big difference in the maturity level between boys and girls. Which does not level of until adulthood

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