Customer in Florida Salon Injured by Gunshot from Next-Door Gun Store

February 13, 2017

A customer at a nail salon in Florida was accidentally shot after an employee of a gun store next-door inadvertently discharged a gun.

The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that 19-year-old Yaminah Gilbert was shot in the back Friday while she was seated in a chair getting a pedicure at the nail salon in Largo, Florida, along the Gulf Coast.

She was treated and released from a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The sheriff’s office says an employee at the neighboring gun store was unloading a customer’s handgun when it accidentally discharged.

The bullet went through the adjoining wall and hit Gilbert.

The sheriff’s office says it’s still investigating and no charges have been filed.

Topics Florida Gun Liability

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  • February 16, 2017 at 9:30 am
    mrbob says:
    Most gun stores have a clearing barrel which is a rather simple steel tube that is filled with sand and the muzzle of the weapon is placed within the opening. The employee wo... read more
  • February 13, 2017 at 3:45 pm
    Agent says:
    Seems to me that a gun store would have better walls than this to stop any bullet from going through. What was it, a sheetrock wall?
  • February 13, 2017 at 3:17 pm
    mrbob says:
    IJ lets get it right there is no such thing as an Accidental Discharge (AD) all "AD's" are in fact Negligent Discharges (ND). The only way that a fire arm will discharge is i... read more

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