Associated Press

LAUREL, Md. — Officials in a Maryland city say a police officer unintentionally shot a man who was in a grocery store that had been burglarized.

Laurel city spokeswoman Audrey Barnes said at a news conference Monday that officers responded Sunday night to a burglar alarm at Indus Food International Market. She says police saw a 15-year-old boy fleeing the building and caught him.

Barnes says officers were checking the building when one officer, who was holding his service weapon, saw movement in the dark. The spokeswoman says the officer was moving his gun from one hand to the other when it discharged and hit a 20-year-old man inside.

The man was in stable condition in a hospital. The officer, a 17-year veteran, is on administrative leave.

Barnes didn't know the races of the people involved.

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