The teenage stepdaughter of a California police officer reportedly shot herself by accident with her father’s personal gun on Monday.
The Gilroy, California officer has been off duty since the shooting of the 13-year-old girl, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Police have classified the shooting, which took place in the officer’s Gilroy home, as an accident, the newspaper reported. It was not immediately clear whether the officer will be punished by the department.
The officer’s stepdaughter took a bullet to the leg and was rushed to surgery at a local trauma center. She is expected to survive, according to the Times. Neither the officer nor the girl were named by the Times.
The Gilroy police department will hand the case to Santa Clara County prosecutors to consider charges, the newspaper reported.
