TV Reporter Shot in Hand With BB Gun During Live Report — Updated With Full Clip
- Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:29am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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FONTANA, Calif. (The Blaze/AP) — Authorities said a reporter has been shot in the hand with a BB gun pellet while giving a live report on Southern California weather.
Lt. Mark Weissman of the Fontana Police Department said KABC-TV news reporter Leann Suter was hit as she gave the report near Interstate 15 at about 6 p.m. Saturday. She was taken to a hospital, but was not seriously injured.
Weismann said two boys ages 16 and 17 were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. Other BB guns were reportedly recovered at a nearby home.
KABC President and General Manager Arnold J. Kleiner said in a statement that station officials are grateful Suter wasn’t seriously hurt.
“Our crews and reporters are very conscious of good safety practices and take proper precautions when on assignment. They could not have anticipated that someone would decide to target them in this way,” Kleiner said.
Watch Suter’s full report below. Around the two-minute mark she begins to sound hesitant and pauses several times, but remains poised on camera.
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Comments (131)
Ampleforth
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:23amYou’ll shoot your eye out! You’ll shoot your eye out!
If I had been caught shooting someone with my BB gun, I wouldn’t have ever seen that gun again, and I would’ve been barred from dove hunts and quail hunts. I knew that the consequences of stupidity were severe, and not from the local magistrate.
However, I did shoot my brother in the butt with a Crossman air rifle. He’d pump it up once and shoot our cat in the hind-end with it. I insisted that it hurt the cat. So, he took up his position with his butt toward me at about 20 paces. I pumped the air rifle once, loaded a BB, aimed, fired, and hit him just below the right pocket of his Levis. He screamed, YEEEOW! He never shot the cat again.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:18pmDid I miss something? I thought she got hit with a BB during a live report? I just watched 3 minutes of weather coverage from I don’t even know where for what?
Report Post »obamanation
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:42pmJJ.. .wtch the next vid. In the 1st vid did you notice she eventually starts talking a little oddly?
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 5:29pmI watched both videos and didn’t notice anything in either. Maybe I was looking for a more obvious reaction.
Report Post »obamanation
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 5:35pmYa.. it’s not very exciting. It seems that she was shot when they were showing images of the storm and not while they were showing the reporter. I did notice she moves her left hand out of screen, so I assume that’s where she was shot.
A random rainstorm and a random shooting. What a random day in SoCal!
Report Post »Cheetosareus
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:18amSLUKE it was probably one of those you can pump up or a pellet gun. Couldn’t have been a BB gun.
Report Post »Sluke
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:07amAssault with a deadly, REALLY? Now we will have 5 day waiting periods on BB guns.
Report Post »DeepSouthernMan
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:18amThe charge was assault with a dangerous weapon, not deadly. Get your sh*t right.
Report Post »ohyaok
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:52amThe article above says deadly, who’s crap needs to be gathered togather?
Report Post »the58thstate
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 11:56amdeepsouthernman its your droppings that needs to get in line, it says deadly.
Report Post »Chris
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 3:04pmThere was a kid killed by a pellet from a BB gun in Cleveland a few years ago, so you could make a case for it being a deadly weapon. Dangerous seems more reasonable since it usually takes a very bad stroke of luck for somebody to get killed with a BB.
Report Post »Attention2Detail
Posted on August 1, 2011 at 2:49pmThe text of the article says deadly weapon, but the video report says dangerous weapon. I guess we need a tiebreaker. Either way unless this is a top-end BB gun, it isn’t either. New can we stop arguing about who has the better bowel movement.
Report Post »concealled9mms
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:06amSomeone should check to see if these kids got the guns from eric holder
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:20amLmao
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:36amThanks for the laugh….
Report Post »RIGHTHOOK
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:50amFontana is one of the inland Southern California slim holes that is a breading ground for gangbangers.
Report Post »Much like Ontario, San Bernardino, Perris, Rialto, Colton, Moreno Valley, Menifee, Wildomar, Hemet and on and on. These once quiet alternatives to Los Angeles are infested with trash of all colors. Graffiti and guns are all these people do………after they cash their entitlement checks that is.
RIGHTHOOK
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:56amCorrection…….BREEDING ground for gangbangers….. :-)
Report Post »affinnity
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:33amConcealled9mms. Brilliant thought. This is probably just another plot by the Obama, Holder and their Great Left Wing Conspiracy to make conservative children seem like gun toting gang bangers.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 5:50pmFuture ATF operatives, maybe?
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:05am.
Report Post »BB guns, Wrist Rockets (badass slingshot) if you were in range you were a target. C’mon Man good clean fun, nobody lost an eye……….
Jack2011
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:52amI‘m surprised the 16 policemen in full riot gear didn’t come out and taser the kids for “resisting” arrest.
That said, IF the boys shot at her deliberately, they need community service, anger management classes, gun safety classes, a parents foot up their behind and a mental eval to see if they are psychopaths or just plain stupid. .
IF the boys were horsing around and did not deliberately shoot at her, SH*T happens. No harm. No fowl. They take a gun safety course. Period.
The parents should pick up the reporters actual out of pocket ER costs.
Report Post »TRUTH
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:13amWhy should the parents pick up the ER costs? How about the kids?!
loriann12
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:44amAs my grandpa used to say, “I’ll stomp a mud puddle in your butt.”
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:41pmAccording to Hillary, “It takes a village”. So she wants the village to pay for what the kids have done. Sucks to be a Dem.
Report Post »ryguy1985
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:52amWOW it was a damn BB! They make it sound like lives were at risk! She was “rushed to the hospital”. WHAT? put a little antibiotic ointment on it and slap on a bandaid sissy!
Report Post »1me2ao
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:34amit is work releated and probably had to go to hospital..
Report Post »Misdirection
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:39amI think she actually took it well! Her work probably made here go to the hospital.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:47pmHow old is she? What is her life expectancy? Does she have any pre-existing conditions? Is it worth the cost to Obama care to pay for the band-aid? Inquiring government officials want to know!!!!
Report Post »Meechee
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 1:05pmLost a 9 year old in Riverside ER from a BB gun shot in chest. It really is not a TOY!
Report Post »boltfan63
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 1:47pmRYGUY,
Report Post »If it was one of your loved ones would you feel the same?
hightide
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:39amGive me a break. Every kid I knew growing up had at least one bb gun. No one got hurt. Are they dangerous? Yes. So is a skate board… You don’t put someone in jail because of an accident.
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:54amHow do you know it was an accident? This is Ca.
Report Post »mikiegro
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:37amRemember the good ol’ days when you used to use a wrist rocket sling-shot with marbles? What would that be about a 50 cal.?
Report Post »chazman
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:40amThat’s what ya get, ya Liberal Marxist NEWS REPORTER! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha … huh?
Report Post »TRUTH
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:15amSeriously Chazman? She’s reporting on the weather and somehow becomes a liberal Marxist reporter. You give conservatives a bad name.
Report Post »Bowmaster
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:33amThese boys need a good old fashioned ass whoopin from their parents.
Report Post »We shot at each other as boys, but, would never rat out our friends if questioned.
(thus initiating said “ass whooping”!)
None of us turned out to be violent killers, and we sure as heck would never have considered shooting a “civilian”.
Dustyluv
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:37amA whipping in Caliorniua? Then the parents would be put in jail…Crazy F’ing Liberals.
Report Post »Ready2Rumble
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:41amDitto! These kids need more azz-whoppin’ and less coddling.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:46am“Spare the rod spoil the child” or as Robert Heinlein said “Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:55amDid the same here as a youth. Let’s not go overboard.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 4:33pm@TRUTH
Yer an idiot …
Report Post »Bowmaster
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:24am.177 is a pretty heavy caliber for anyone but a convicted felon in that part of the country.
Report Post »It could have blown her arm off!
Before paintball, we would shoot each other playing Army with them.
We were an armed militia way before the “right wing extremist”, label was imposed by the liberals.
(until our moms called us home for dinner)
Bushie
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:14amReleased to their parents……that’s going to really help these little disturbed punks. If the parents were doing the proper job, this may not have happened.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:48amThen their stepmothers drove them to appointments at the Social Justice and Inclusion Clinic. They got ice cream on the way home.
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:09amI wonder if the ATF sold those guns to those teens… nah, it would have been stonewalled and covered up if that was the case…
Report Post »Bill me later
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:05amYour Comment points are wrong. You should be asking why would these boys ,shoot at a person.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:50amNo, to conservatives that point needs no expression. It’s taken for granted , except when playing “War” with other BB gun wielders.
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:05amHey Blazers– In our zeal to trash all thing Odumbo or to take the Blaze to task for faulty coverage let us not miss the bigger point here. WHO TAUGHT THESE MINI-GOBLINS THAT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO SHOOT AT PEOPLE EVEN WITH A BB GUN?? When I was a young man I too owned a BB gun and if I aimed it at the wrong target much less actually shot the wrong target I was severly disciplined by my father. Dad drummed safety safety safety into us from the day he handed us our first BB gun. My brothers and I graduated to larger and more effient firearms and on to hunting and I can safely say that none of us has ever shot another person by accident or just to be malicious. I was taught never to point at anything or anyone I was not prpared to kill and it is a lesson that is still with me after 50 years. They are not toys they are dangerous/deadly WEAPONS and these goblins must be taught that lesson and soon…..Just sayin’
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:48amThanks Big J, saved me a lot of key strokes.
Report Post »orlandojon
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:59amIt’s rare that reporters even leave their desks to cover any news…that’s the real story here
Report Post »parmajohn
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:56amObviously a white on white crime No story here….But if she was a minority Boy would the shiat hit the fan……..
Report Post »robinraleigh
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:49am@WildBill_B, listen to TV report, don’t just read…the anchor said the juveniles were charged with “assault with a DANGEROUS weapon” – not deadly – big difference. And yes, BB/Pellet guns are dangerous and can be deadly depending on the type of gun and the nature of the injury.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:48amI was shot in the leg at close range once when I was a kid with a bb gun…can I get on the news?
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:57amYou just got on the news, congrats!
Report Post »ecurbyy
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:04amShe was already on the news when she got popped. I accidentally shot myself with a B.B. gun on Christmas morning, 1956. I cried, my parents laughed. I’m a retired peace officer today.
Report Post »Kiwon
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:46amCom’on Blaze, here’s another dumb mistake.
The anchor said “assault with a DANGEROUS weapon” not “assault with a DEADLY weapon.”
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:45amTaken to a hospital? For what? Does she go to the hospital to blow her nose, too? C’mon, Blaze, there’s gotta be some real news happening, even in Commiefornia. But to run such a silly anti-Second Amendment story as this…
Report Post »vermindust
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:02amMedia are such drama queens. Viewers could not even tell she’d been hit but the producer smelled a story and made her go to the hospital. This is only news because it happened to one of their own.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:45amconcealed carry, my friends; or, open carry. Lessons and practice!
PRAYER!
PRAY AND FAST FOR OUR COUNTRY. Start now praying for the day of prayer and fasting on Saturday, August 6th.
This article is a good example of WHY we have to pray, for us all as AMERICANS and for the world.
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:41amOh no, Eric Holder get on this one – NOW…but fyou will soon forget ATF and DOJ with respect to “Fast and Furious” screw-up.
Eric make sure that you, Prez Kid and Timmy don’t let a precieved crisis go to waste…time to go after the “Red Rider”.
Report Post »Red Bubba
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:57amThe BB gun probably came from the DOJ. It was part of operation “you‘ll put someone’s eye out”, a scheme to make the big BB industry look bad so they could be regulated out of existence.
Report Post »Eternal Lucy
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:30amThat was exactly my thought. A perfect set-up.
Report Post »Boomer One
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:40amDeadly weapon? Only in Kalifornia!
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:52amActually, if the pellet hit you in the ‘right’ spot, it could kill you.
Report Post »parmajohn
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:57amSo could a spoon
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:54amIf Barry’s Obamacare 2000 page report hit you , it could kill a country.
Report Post »Oh wait it did hit us.
affinnity
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:37amStuck_in_ca/. Sorry you’re stuck in California. I think you would have a better chance accidentally putting a persons eye out with a BB. It is nice to know you are concerned about others.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:52pmSo can my fist.
Report Post »wildbill_b
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:37amBB guns are now “deadly weapons”? Are spit wad shooters next?
Report Post »ALibertarianCitizen
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:06amI’ve shot metal pellets with an air rifle. They are capable of penetrating flesh pretty easily, just ask the snakes and etc shot at. They are dangerous, while rarely lethal, they can cause a bloody wound if you have the right kind of rifle. You can also pump them more than they are supposed to go (did it once myself) and it would have easily penetrated flesh at the range I was shooting it from at that power. It’s a good thing they are balls, rather than bullet shaped. So not so much deadly, but definitely dangerous.
Report Post »Bushie
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:19amTry having someone hit you in the eye with one and then, let me know how you feel about them.
Report Post »affinnity
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:51amI shot a coon in the butt with a pellet gun and it got very upset. When I was a kid my friends big bully brothers would chase us and shoot us with BB guns. BB’s never penetrated our skin.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:55pmI’ll tell you what. You let me plink at you with a 22 Cal pellet gun shooting at 950 Feet Per Second striking you with 23 ft-lbs of muzzle energy, and you shoot back with spit wads. I know I’ll have some fun, how about you?
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