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Police have ticketed a 31-year-old man after they say he accidentally fired a gun in his south Lincoln apartment Monday, sending a bullet through the floor and into a woman's apartment below.

Officer Katie Flood said the man was grabbing the weapon to put it back inside its carrying case inside his apartment near 27th Street and Old Cheney Road around 5:30 p.m.

When he accidentally put his finger on the trigger, the gun fired sending a 9-mm slug through the floor and ceiling of the apartment below, Flood said. The man called 911 immediately, Flood said.

The 36-year-old woman was in that apartment and heard the shot but wasn't injured, Flood said.

It wasn't clear where the 9-mm slug was found.

The man was cited and released on suspicion of discharging a firearm in city limits.

Reach the writer at 402-473-2657 or rjohnson@journalstar.com. On Twitter @LJSRileyJohnson.

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