LENAWEE COUNTY, Mich. — A teenage girl was sent to the hospital after her boyfriend allegedly accidentally shot her in Lenawee County on Sunday night.
According to the Lenawee County Sheriff's Office, they received a call just before 10 p.m. from a 19-year-old male who said he had accidentally shot his 16-year-old girlfriend.
Crews responded to the 13000 block of Packard Road in Medina Township and found the teenage girl had sustained a gunshot wound to the wrist and abdomen. She was transported to a Toledo area hospital by air ambulance with non-life-threatening injuries.
The sheriff's office detective bureau said that all signs indicate that the couple was preparing to clean a .22 caliber rifle when it accidentally discharged and struck the victim.
The incident remains under investigation according to the sheriff's office.
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