
Sansom Park Officer Lina Mino remained hospitalized Thursday after being shot over the weekend during police training in Forest Hill. A GoFundMe account has been established for her.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
By Harriet Ramos
Updated November 10, 2022 4:36 PM
The police officer who was injured in an accidental shooting during a training exercise Saturday has been moved out of the Intensive Care Unit, the Sansom Park Police Department announced in a news release.
Sansom Park Officer Lina Mino, 32, was participating in an active shooter training class at a Forest Hill elementary school Nov. 5 when she was accidentally shot in the face by a live round.
Mino was transported to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth in critical condition and had to undergo surgery. According to a Wednesday news release, her condition is serious but stable and she faces additional surgery in the future.
“We as a department are praying and trusting that her condition will continue to improve and that she will be back on patrol serving the citizens of Sansom Park,” Sansom Park Chief of Police James Burchfield said in the release.
Officials said participants in the training scenario were playing the parts of the active shooter and of officers responding to an active shooter call. Authorities have not said which role Mino was playing when she was shot or who shot her.
Paul Gaumond, a reserve deputy constable for the Johnson County Constable Precinct 2 Office, served as the instructor for the exercise at David K. Sellars Elementary School. Gaumond has been placed on administrative leave during the investigation, according to the Dallas Morning News.
The training was conducted through third-party private vendor Texas Police Trainers LLC, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson.
Janice Washington, the Killeen-based company’s owner, told the Star-Telegram in a brief telephone conversation earlier this week, “We’re all devastated by this.” Washington declined to answer questions and noted the matter was under review.
Gaumond could not be reached for comment.
It’s not clear how a weapon with a live round was introduced into the active shooter training class and the incident is being investigated by the Texas Rangers and the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office.
This story was originally published November 10, 2022 2:03 PM.