Gunshot Victim Smuggled Weapon Into White Sox Game By ‘Hiding It In Her Fat Folds’

During Friday night’s White Sox game against the Oakland Athletics, two women were shot and suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The incident happened at Guaranteed Rate Field in the left field bleachers, but no one knew where the bullets had actually come from and how a gun even got into the stadium. However, the details that have come out since are nothing short of bizarre.

1. The shooting was accidental. This is according to ESPN Chicago’s Peggy Kusinski. She took to Twitter after the incident and insisted that there was no fight or intended violence that led to the two women being shot. Instead, it was an accidental discharge of a weapon.
2. The woman who brought the gun in did so in an odd way. According to Kusinski, one of the two victims was the woman who brought the gun into the stadium. She was “grazed” by a bullet because she had it on her body. She apparently “snuck the gun in past metal detectors [by] hiding it in the folds of her belly fat.”
3. It seems strange, but it must be the case. Witnesses and other attendees at the game were baffled by the shooting since no fights had taken place and there was no sign of nay kind of violence going on. An accidental discharge was the only answer. It’s just that no one expected where the gun might have been.
4. Keeping a gun in your fat folds doesn’t seem like a great idea. As the unnamed woman found out, sneaking a gun through metal detectors by stashing it in your fat rolls might work, but it also might end up leaving you and others with bullet wounds. Things could have gone way worse, so thankfully everyone is okay.
5. It’s unclear whether any criminal charges have been filed. However, given that bringing guns into baseball games is clearly illegal, it seems likely that they will.

As I reported on @ESPN1000 just now… the shooting at Guaranteed Rate Field during a #WhiteSox game was indeed an accidental discharge by one of the women “grazed” by the bullet. She reportedly snuck the gun in past metal detectors hiding it in the folds of her belly fat.

— Peggy Kusinski (@peggykusinski) August 29, 2023

Here is video from the #WhiteSox on the shooting incident tonight at Guaranteed Rate Field. Look to the right of the State Farm sign, midway up Section 161. pic.twitter.com/H5CPjeta0q

— Jay Cohen (@jcohenap) August 26, 2023