A Colorado Springs woman claims she was moving a shotgun out of reach during an argument to avoid a violent confrontation when she accidently squeezed the trigger, sending buckshot through her wall and into a neighbor’s home.
The shooting — believed to be alcohol related — happened at 3:59 a.m. Tuesday.
No one in the woman’s townhome on the 6600 block of Palace Drive or the adjoining townhome was injured.
Colorado Springs police arrested the woman for investigation of illegal discharge of a firearm and reckless endangerment, according to a Colorado Springs police report.
The name of the suspect has not been released.
“Officers determined that during the course of an argument, an occupant of a townhome retrieved a shotgun in an attempt to remove it from the situation when it accidently discharged,” the police report says.
The shotgun blast had gone through an interior wall and into an adjoining townhome, which was occupied.
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