Former Major League Baseball star Jose Canseco accidentally shot himself in the hand while cleaning a handgun in his Las Vegas home Monday afternoon, police said.
'It was a serious hand injury,' Las Vegas Metro Police Lt. Mark Reddon said of the 2:30 p.m. accident in northeast Las Vegas, which damaged one of the fingers on Canseco's left hand.
Reddon said no criminality is suspected, and that Canseco apparently didn't realize there was a round in the chamber as he cleaned a large-caliber handgun. 'There was nothing suspicious. There was no alcohol involved, just a misstep with a handgun,' Reddon said. Canseco was a star with the Oakland Athletics in the 1980s and helped the team win the 1989 World Series. He later played for the Texas Rangers and Boston Red Sox and other teams, but in 2005 he admitted to using steroids in a tell-all.
First published October 28 2014, 7:36 PM
Andrew BlanksteinAndrew Blankstein is an investigative reporter for NBC News. He covers the Western United States, specializing in crime, courts and homeland security. Blankstein worked at the Los Angeles Times over two decades, much of that time covering breaking news, law enforcement and the justice system in Southern California both for the paper and latimes.com.He was part of the team of journalists that earned the paper Pulitzer Prizes in 1998 for the North Hollywood shootout and in 2004 for the Southern California wildfires. In 2010, he was named a “Distinguished Journalist†by the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.Blankstein graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a degree in history and a secondary emphasis on public law.He joined NBC News in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles.
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