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Published in News on August 30, 2011 1:46 PM
Woman involved in accidental shooting
As a 49-year-old Goldsboro woman was preparing to wash her bed sheets around 8 p.m. Saturday when a firearm fell out of the bed and onto the floor, where it then discharged and struck the woman's leg with a bullet, according to a Goldsboro police report.
The woman, of Laurel Avenue, told police she had forgotten the Phoenix P-51 .21 automatic pistol was in the bed.
The woman was taken to Wayne Memorial Hospital for the gun shot wound and police seized the firearm for safe keeping.