Playing with gun, Boynton Beach woman shot in legBy ELIOT KLEINBERG Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Story linkBOYNTON BEACH — A woman who told police she was shot through the leg Wednesday night as she walked down a street later admitted she was shot inside a home while she and her boyfriend played with a gun.
The woman first said she was walking in the 430 block of Northwest First Avenue about 11:45 p.m. when an unidentified man shot her.
The woman was taken to Bethesda Memorial Hospital, where she was treated for a wound in her upper left thigh.
Police later determined the woman was shot inside a home.
They found a shell casing on a bed in a spare back bedroom and found the bullet itself under the bed.
The woman later said she and her boyfriend had been playing with the gun when it went off. Police believe the boyfriend fired the shot.
The woman signed forms refusing to prosecute, the log entry said.
It did not identify her.