Plaxico Burress Shoots Self in Leg

WTF?!?

Update 10:00 pm: the NFL and the Giants have weighed in, the NFL with the milquetoast headline Plaxico Burress Accidentally Shot, with bonus typographical error in the first line of the piece:

Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himslef in the right thigh and spent a night in the hospital,...

Head over there now before they update it. No real news in that one. Over at the Giants official site they want to keep it even more vanilla with the headline Giants On WR Burress. No news there either.

Update 8:00 pm: the New York Post has a typically loud headline, PLAXICO BURRESS COULD CATCH A FELONY RAP, they did a little digging and found no permit in Plaxico's name to carry a weapon in the city, meaning if it was his gun he may be in some trouble.

Update 7:30 pm: the big boys have started weighing in and there are a few more details. Bloomberg reports that Plaxico accidentally shot himself in the right thigh at the Latin Quarter nightclub at the Radisson Lexington Hotel in Manhattan. The Washington Post has more details on the location here and here. John Branch at the New York Times first had a blog post up on the NYT Fifth Down and then a piece on the main site, he corroborates that Plaxico shot himself accidentally in the right thigh but has no detail on the location. Reuters here, no real new detail in this one, nor from AP here.

Update 1:00 pm: CNN is now carrying the story and they cite a no comment from the Giants spokeshead. The Giants' official site still has nothing on this story.

Update noon: other reporting is starting to roll in. Fox Sports' Jay Glazer seems to have the earliest report, 11:17 am and reports that Plaxico shot himself accidentally. John Clayton's ESPN report linked below is later is being updated so I do not have the original post time. Ralph Vacchiano at New York Daily News also has an 11:17 am report and calls it a quote accidental shooting unquote. So far everybody else is reporting off either the Jay Glazer or John Clayton report, AOL Fanhouse as an example.

Update 11:48 am: the report is already changing from he shot himself in the leg accidentally to he was accidentally shot in the leg in a club last night. Might make a little more sense than shooting himself if he was ruled out of the game with injury and decided to go out last night.

A breaking story, I just heard this on Sirius NFL Radio, Giants receiver Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the leg last night (Friday) and spent the night in the hospital. Sirius NFL Radio reported that the injury was not life threatening.

Details are still coming in, ESPN has a skeleton report from John Clayton and there is no other coverage at this time, John's report indicates Plaxico was shot in a nightclub, this contradicts the report I heard on Sirius NFL Radio.

An odd part of this story is that Plaxico had already been ruled out of Sunday's game against the Redskins due to a lingering hamstring injury.

I will keep this thread updated, my god I hope he is ok.



Plaxico Burress: uncredited image from here.