UAW Vice President General Holiefield, pleaded no contest to reckless use of a firearm on Wednesday, regarding the accidental shooting that wounded his wife at their Harrison Township home in December.
According to the Detroit Free Press, citing a report by the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office:
Holiefield, 60, told police he was sitting at the kitchen table the night of Dec. 30 and his wife, Monica Morgan, was to his left when the gun went off and she screamed.”Holiefield, who is left-handed, had picked up his 45-caliber pistol with his right hand to clean it and attempted to pull back the slide with his left hand when it went off.
“Maybe I touched the trigger,” Holiefield told deputies who responded to the accidental shooting. He said it was his gun, and he shot his wife, the report said.
According to the police report, a witness at the home looked up and heard Holiefield say: “Oh my God. What did I do?”
Holiefield’s wife is well-known freelance photographer, Monica Morgan, who is expected to fully recover after abdominal surgery.
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