July 18, 2012
By Linda Martz, MansfieldNewsJournal.com
PERRYSVILLE — A 34-year-old Perrysville woman is in stable
condition at Samaritan Hospital in Ashland after a shooting accident
this morning.
Ashland County Sheriff’s Captain Carl Richert
said the woman suffered minor injuries while she was hunting a
groundhog with a .22 Marlin semiautomatic rifle.
The
34-year-old took two shots and missed, and was walking with the
rifle pointed toward the ground and her finger on the trigger when
the rifle went off, he said.
On a semi-automatic rifle,
“every time you pull the trigger it self-loads,”
he said. “She
brought the gun down toward the ground with her finger on the trigger and it went off.
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