From the Hillsboro paper.
A Leesburg woman is in stable condition after being flown to a Kettering hospital on Thursday following what’s reported as an accidental gunshot, according to Highland County Sheriff Donnie Barrera.
Barrera reported that at shortly before 6:30 p.m. Thursday his office received a call from the 1100 block of SR 72 from the daughter of a wounded individual. The daughter said she came home and found her mother lying in the yard with a gunshot wound to her left side.
Barrera said that deputies and emergency personnel with North Joint Fire and Ambulance District were called to the scene. Upon arrival 52-year-old Janice Jones was found lying in the yard.
The sheriff said Jones said she had been out in the yard shooting and fell into a hole, and when she was trying to get up the gun went off, a bullet striking her in her ribs and exiting out her back. He said emergency personnel on the scene believed the bullet to have possibly passed through a lung.
Posted by Paul Hunter
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