ST. JOSEPH , Mich., Feb. 21 (UPI) -- A Michigan woman who shot herself on New Years Day was found to have been adjusting her bra when her concealed firearm discharged, police say.

Officers found Christina Bond, 55, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the eye on Jan. 1 and rushed her to medical care. Bond died the next day, and detectives are still waiting for the full autopsy report, but police said Wednesday that the St. Joseph resident had shot herself accidentally while adjusting her bra.


"She was having trouble adjusting her bra holster, couldn't get it to fit the way she wanted it to. She was looking down at it and accidentally discharged the weapon," Mark Clapp, St. Joseph public safety director, told the Kalamazoo Gazette.

A mother of two sons and grandmother of six, Bond won the 2013 Miss Michigan Figure Overall Championship and was recently elected as a Republican delegate for St. Joseph Charter Township Precinct 1. She served as a military police officer in the U.S. Navy for two years prior to graduating high school, according to her obituary.