If it was TWO shots, the probability is to the moon high that it was an accidential shooting. I thought I heard on the news though that the media originally stated it was two shots and it was later corrected to only ONE shot.
A Glock has only an internal safety trigger, meaning you have to place your finger directly on the center of the trigger and pull back, to fire off a round. If you try to pull the trigger from either "side" of the trigger, it will not fire. Glocks are also known for a fairly light trigger pull of 5.5 pounds. Seeing he was a police chief, he might have modified his trigger pull down even less, to say 3.5 pounds, which would improve shooting accuracy with less resistance. A lot of law enforcement and gun experts will add this modification. So yes, it is possible the gun could have discharged from grabbing it carelessly or even if a bed linen got wraped inside the trigger guard and was pulled the wrong way. Stranger things have happened and there have been many cases where law enforcement and the public have "accidentally" fired their Glock handgun. The overwhelming majority of the time it is due to human carelessness with the gun. Glocks are one of the most reliable (if respected) and durable handguns on the market, but one needs to take extra care and caution when owning a Glock because of the lack of a traditional external safety. I actually prefer my Springfield XD (similar material, construction, and capacity as a Glock) because in addition to a trigger safety, it has a squeeze handle safety. When two safeties are combined in conjunction with the firing of a shot, an accidential shooting would be much harder to achieve. Best rule of thumb...always keep your finger off the trigger until you plan on shooting the weapon! This would eliminate a lot of so called "accidents".
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