A nine-year-old girl was shot outside of a Halloween party by her own relative mistaken thought the girl was a skunk! The little girl was wearing a black costume and a black hat with a white tassel when she was shot at by a male relative who was sober during the shooting. The girl’s condition is unknown and police are unsure if they will press charges on the man. Read more below.
New Sewickley Township, Pennsylvania 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 that the girl was alert and talking when she was flown to a hospital in Pittsburgh, about 30 miles away. Her condition was unavailable.
