No one was hurt when an east Vancouver resident’s firearm discharged accidentally Tuesday evening, sending a bullet through a wall and into a neighbor’s apartment.
Vancouver Police Department Sgt. Patrick Johns said a woman examining her gun, which she thought was unloaded, accidentally fired a round at about 6:30 p.m.
The bullet shot through walls in her apartment and into a neighboring unit in the 13000 block of Southeast 20th Circle, Johns said. He said it seemed to responding officers that the woman had little experience with firearms or formal weapons training.
Johns said officers plan to file a report of an unlawful firearm discharge within city limits, but whether that results in any citation or fine will be up to the prosecutor.
“Thankfully, it just went into some drywall,” he said. “It didn’t hit anybody or do any major damage.”
