When Barbara Bossenmeyer walked into work at John Wayne Airport she was unaware there was an AR-15 assault rifle pointed right at her – a weapon that would soon blow a gaping hole in her arm.
A Voice of OC investigation found when county employees are injured by the sheriff’s department, they can’t get information on what happened to the officers involved and they can’t sue the department under state law.
On the other side of the office wall on Aug. 26 2020, an Orange County Sheriff sergeant was fiddling with his rifle, eventually pointing it at the wall and clicking the trigger to verify his fix.
That click fired off a bullet that ripped through the wall and left a massive hole in Bossenmeyer’s right arm, one that required multiple surgeries to fix.
“I did not know that I got shot,” Bossenmeyer said in an interview with Voice of OC. “I didn’t understand what had just happened.”
“I just knew a big puff of smoke blew out the side of my arm, then when I touched my arm I felt something awful.”
Bossenmyer has spent years handling the aftermath of the wound, with extensive physical therapy and a therapist to help her handle her PTSD from the incident.
But one of the toughest aspects of her recovery has been going up against the County of Orange and the Sheriff’s Department, trying to find out what happened to the deputy who mistakenly shot her.
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