Police: Gun discharged during argument between three women

Gunfire inside a Wauwatosa nail salon injured the shop's owner Saturday afternoon, police said.According to Wauwatosa police Capt. Brian Zalewski, a gun went off inside Ly Ly Nails and Spa near Mayfair Road and Center Street around 3:05 p.m.Zalewski said a woman was in the salon when two others showed up and a physical fight ensued.The fight was captured on cellphone video.One woman punched the woman in the salon in the face.During the fight, a gun belonging to the woman in the salon went off.Police said a bullet fragment hit the nail salon owner in the toe.A former state trooper who witnessed the incident stopped the woman with the gun from leaving the scene, according to police.The 21-year-old gun owner's mother spoke Monday to WISN 12 News."The video showed everything. My daughter was being bullied. They attacked my daughter and she feared for her life," she said.She said she told the other women she did not want to fight before the altercation began."She got a business. She doesn't want to fight. That's tacky," the woman's mother said.Investigators said they are questioning two women connected to the incident and charges are pending. Zalewski said the third woman will likely be identified through the investigation."This could have happened anywhere. It didn't have any direct connection to the nail salon," he said. "They had a previous issue with each other through some online communications and they just happened to run into each other."The names of the women involved have not yet been released.They were not seriously injured.The salon owner was treated at the scene, according to police.

Gunfire inside a Wauwatosa nail salon injured the shop's owner Saturday afternoon, police said.

According to Wauwatosa police Capt. Brian Zalewski, a gun went off inside Ly Ly Nails and Spa near Mayfair Road and Center Street around 3:05 p.m.


Zalewski said a woman was in the salon when two others showed up and a physical fight ensued.

The fight was captured on cellphone video.

One woman punched the woman in the salon in the face.

During the fight, a gun belonging to the woman in the salon went off.

Police said a bullet fragment hit the nail salon owner in the toe.

A former state trooper who witnessed the incident stopped the woman with the gun from leaving the scene, according to police.

The 21-year-old gun owner's mother spoke Monday to WISN 12 News.

"The video showed everything. My daughter was being bullied. They attacked my daughter and she feared for her life," she said.

She said she told the other women she did not want to fight before the altercation began.

"She got a business. She doesn't want to fight. That's tacky," the woman's mother said.

Investigators said they are questioning two women connected to the incident and charges are pending.

Zalewski said the third woman will likely be identified through the investigation.

"This could have happened anywhere. It didn't have any direct connection to the nail salon," he said. "They had a previous issue with each other through some online communications and they just happened to run into each other."

The names of the women involved have not yet been released.

They were not seriously injured.

The salon owner was treated at the scene, according to police.

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