Florida Man Wondered If Flak Jacket ‘Still Worked’ His Cousin Fatally Shoots Him

Alexandro Garabaldi, 24, is currently in the Hillsborough County Jail on a $20,000 bond after killing his 23-year-old cousin Joaquin Mendez.

According to the New York Daily News Mendez had been wearing a flak jacket and asked aloud on whether or not it still worked.

Garabaldi simply responded, “Let’s see,” and took out a gun.

Police say they arrived to the home where the shooting occurred and found Mendez bleeding from a bullet wound to the chest. He was transported to the hospital where he later died.

Garabaldi told investigators that he heard the gunshot and found his cousin wounded outside of the home. However, a witness told authorities that Garabaldi shot Mendez as he sat on a chair wondering if the jacket still worked.

Turns out that a flak jacket is not a bulletproof vest but a fragmentation jacket worn by soldiers during WWII and the Korean War. The jacket stopped fragments from high-explosive weapons, but did not stop bullets.

Garabaldi’s charges include manslaughter with a weapon and a felon in a possession of a firearm.

Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/florida-man-fatally-shot-flak-jacket-worked-article-1.2788933

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