Police: Girl mistaken for skunk, shot
Associated Press
FREEDOM, Pa.
Police say a costumed 9-year-old girl was accidentally shot outside a home during a Halloween party by a relative who thought she was a skunk.
New Sewickley Township police say she was over a hillside and wearing a black costume and a black hat at the time of the 8:30 p.m. Saturday shooting. Chief Ronald Leindecker told the Beaver County Times that a male relative at the home mistook her for a skunk and fired a shotgun, hitting her in the shoulder. Her condition was unavailable.