<p>Alexandro Garabaldi, 24, is currently in the Hillsborough County Jail on a $20,000 bond after killing his 23-year-old cousin Joaquin Mendez.</p>
<p>According to the New York Daily News Mendez had been wearing a flak jacket and asked aloud on whether or not it still worked.</p>
<p>Garabaldi simply responded, “Let’s see,” and took out a gun.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Garabaldi’s charges include manslaughter with a weapon and a felon in a possession of a firearm.</p>
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<p>Source: <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/florida-man-fatally-shot-flak-jacket-worked-article-1.2788933">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/florida-man-fatally-shot-flak-jacket-worked-article-1.2788933</a></p>
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