FREEDOM, PA.—Police say a costumed 9-year-old girl was accidentally shot outside a home during a Halloween party by a relative who thought she was a skunk.

The girl was over a hillside and wearing a black costume and a black hat with a white tassel. Chief Ronald Leindecker of the New Sewickley Township police says a male relative mistook her for a skunk and fired a shotgun, hitting her in the shoulder Saturday night.

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Leindecker said the girl was alert and talking when she was flown to a hospital in Pittsburgh, about 50 kilometres away. Her condition was unavailable.

Leindecker says the man hadn’t been drinking. He doesn’t know whether charges will be filed.

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