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FREEDOM, Pa. – Police say a costumed 9-year-old girl was accidentally shot outside a western Pennsylvania home during a Halloween party by a relative who thought she was a skunk.

New Sewickley Township police say the girl was over a hillside and wearing a black costume and a black hat with a white tassel. Chief Ronald Leindecker says a male relative mistook her for a skunk and fired a shotgun, hitting her in the shoulder Saturday night.

Leindecker tells the Beaver County Times (http://bit.ly/QzCkxj ) that the girl was alert and talking when she was flown to a hospital in Pittsburgh, about 30 miles away. Her condition was unavailable.

Leindecker says the man hadn't been drinking and he doesn't know whether charges will be filed.


I don't even know what to say, but what a stinker!!!! Oh, and I had to highlight that BEAVER COUNTY TIMES covered the story! LC would have loved this!!!!

(10-21-2012, 05:10 PM)Duchess Wrote: [ -> ]

Western PA is very close to Ohio...that's just an observation.

Yes, the short bus must make stops there.

(10-21-2012, 04:41 PM)QueenBee Wrote: [ -> ]Guy sees a what he thinks is a skunk and his first thought was to shoot? WTF. And he wasn't drinking? OK, fine.

No kidding. And didn't he notice the skunk was exceptionally large?