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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Andy Grimm

Another accidental shooting raises doubts about SW Side City Council member’s skills as firearm instructor

Ald. Derrick Curtis (18th) attends a Chicago City Council meeting in November, a few weeks after he shot himself in the hand while cleaning a gun. Last week, Curtis’s daughter was shot in the leg during a firearms class her father, a licensed instructor, was leading. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

As a firearm instructor — like, say, Ald. Derrick Curtis (18th) — you’re doing something wrong if you manage to shoot yourself, and then have someone in your class get shot a few months later, experts told the Chicago Sun-Times. 

Yet in the fall, Curtis managed to shoot himself while cleaning someone else’s gun, and last week his 25-year-old daughter was shot in the leg as someone — either her father or her brother, according to a police source — handed her a gun during a firearm training session Curtis was leading at a South Side church. 

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