SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Spokane County sheriff said the shooting of a pregnant woman by a Washington State Patrol detective was an accident.
Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said Thursday that Detective Lee Stemp’s weapon accidentally discharged during a struggle with the woman as she tried to escape through an apartment window during a drug raid last week.
The woman, whose name has not been released, was 39 weeks pregnant and labor was induced at a Spokane hospital. She suffered non-life threatening injuries in the shooting.
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Information from: KXLY-TV, http://www.kxly.com/
