A nine-year-old girl was wounded in a shooting Tuesday night in Carroll County. Sheriff J. B. Gardner says the girl's injuries did not appear to be life threatening.

Gardner said deputies were called to a home on Wards Gap Road in the Cana area around 10:00 Tuesday night. The girl had wounds in her right arm and left hand.

Investigators said they were told the family was cleaning a gun at the time of the incident. Investigators say they later determined a juvenile sibling was cleaning a 9mm handgun when it went off.

The girl is in a hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.