Gun Magically Went Off in Black Boyfriend’s Hand and Killed White Girlfriend

WSPA
November 11, 2014

Police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old woman Thursday night in Fuquay-Varina.

Fuquay-Varina police were dispatched to a shooting call at 204-A Bridge St. at 9:38 p.m. Thursday.

Upon arrival, police found Britny Jordan Puryear, 22, with a gunshot wound to the head.

Logan Connail McLean, 21, was questioned in the shooting and then charged with murder and possession of a firearm by a felon.

Puryear and McLean were dating and had a 4-month-old child together, police said.

WRAL-TV released parts of a 911 call that McLean made after Puryear was shot.

“I think she’s dead, man. Can y’all please help?” WRAL reported that McLean told a 911 dispatcher. “I had a gun, and it went off in my hand, and it shot her.”

He thought she might still be alive, but made no attempts to save her until 911 dispatchers told him to stop smoking a cigarette and go back inside the house, according to the 911 call.

“Are you right by her now?” the dispatcher asks, according to the call obtained by WRAL.

“No, I stepped outside, man,” McLean said on the 911 call from WRAL. “I stepped outside, ’cause I’m smoking a cigarette.”

“You’re smoking a cigarette?” the dispatcher asks. “We need to help her.”

The pair and their child lived at the residence where the shooting occurred.

Police are still investigating the incident.