A two-year-old child was struck in the face after a gun concealed inside her mother’s purse accidentally fired inside a Jackson, Mississippi hospital, police said.
The woman was standing next to a vending machine at Merit Health Center when she dropped her purse, causing the gun to fire, WJTV reported. A bullet bounced off the vending machine and grazed the child’s face.
The injury was non-life-threatening.
The hospital said in a statement weapons are prohibited on the premises and the incident is under police investigation.
