] A Providence detective was killed with his own gun at ] police headquarters Sunday by a suspect who was not ] handcuffed and managed to get hold of the weapon, the ] police chief said. ] The chief would not say how Carpio managed to get ] Allen's weapon, and would not discuss other details ] leading up to the shooting, including whether there ] were witnesses 17% of all police killed in the line of duty are killed by their own firearms. Industrial Memetics is currently working on a SmartGun platform which aims to solve this problem. |