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American mother shoots daughter by mistake
WASHINGTON, Sept 6, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – An American woman shot and wounded her
18-year-old daughter when she showed up to pay a surprise visit and the
mother thought there was an intruder in the house, reports said Wednesday.
The girl, coming home from college for an unannounced visit, was hit in the
arm but will survive Friday’s incident in Girard, Ohio, local TV station WFMJ
said.
The mother had a licensed .38 Special revolver and was home alone when she
heard noise coming from the kitchen or hallway, police chief John Norman told
the station.
“She stated that the bedroom door opened where she was at — and she had a
gun readily available and fired a round at someone coming through the door,”
said Norman.
The mother was shocked to learn she had shot her daughter, said Norman.
A local district attorney will decide if charges are brought, he said.
Gun possession, permitted under the Second Amendment to the US
constitution, is widespread in the US.
Around 40,000 people died from gunfire in 2017, according to government
figures.
The Gun Violence Archive monitoring group says there have been more than
1,100 unintentional shooting incidents in the United States so far this year
that left at least one person dead or wounded.
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