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Woman Uses Gun Laser To Play With Cat – Shoots Friend By Mistake

&NewLine;<p>A woman in Wisconsin accidentally shot her friend when she foolishly used the laser sight on a handgun to play with a cat&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A criminal complaint charging the 19-year-old woman with negligent use of a weapon said she was visiting a Kenosha apartment recently where a 21-year-old man had brought a handgun&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The woman&comma; identified as Jashanti Pleasant&comma; who a witness said had been drinking&comma; picked up the handgun&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;turned on the laser sight and was pointing it at the floor to get the cat to chase it&comma;” when the gun went off&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Pleasant turned on the laser sight and was pointing it at the floor to get a cat to chase it&comma;” police wrote in the probable cause affidavit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As Pleasant was pointing the 9mm gun between the floor and Daniels’ legs&comma; Daniels told the woman&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Hey&comma; let me get that&period;” The gun then went off&comma; and a witness told police that Daniels stood in shock for a moment before asking Pleasant if she just shot him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Daniels&comma; who was standing in a doorway&comma; was shot in the thigh&comma; authorities said&period; He left and went into another apartment&comma; where police found him after responding to a 911 call&comma; the Kenosha News reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The responding officers tied a tourniquet to his leg to stop the bleeding before he was taken to a hospital&period; He told officers he had removed the magazine from the handgun before the incident took place&comma; according to police&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Pleasant said Daniels had allowed her to &&num;8220&semi;play&&num;8221&semi; with the gun&comma; and she also thought it wasn&&num;8217&semi;t loaded at the time&comma; police said&period; But an officer who recovered the gun found it had one bullet in the chamber and six in the magazine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If the magazine had not been inserted into the gun when Ms&period; Pleasant fired the shot&comma; there would have been no round in the chamber later when the gun was found&comma;” police said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&lpar;The officer&rpar; determined that the bullet went through Mr&period; Daniels’ leg and then through a wall into the kitchen&comma; where it hit the back of the stove&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Pleasant called the shooting an accident&comma; and she apologized to Daniels&comma; who she said forgave her&comma; according to the complaint&period; She was charged with injury by negligent handling of a dangerous weapon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>There’s no word on Daniels&&num;8217&semi; current condition&comma; but authorities said he was facing charges for violating bond conditions that prevented him from having a weapon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The woman told police she thought the magazine had been taken out of the gun and said it &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;accidentally went off&comma;” according to the complaint&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>I guess the cat involved in the incident is happy to still have all of his or her 9 lives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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