An 80-year-old woman shot herself in the leg as she was firing a gun at another resident in a Warner Springs mobile home park Tuesday morning, sheriff’s officials said.

Sheriff’s deputies responded to a shooting at the Stone Ridge mobile home park on state Route 79 shortly before 8 a.m. Witnesses said the woman shot multiple times at a man inside the park but none of the shots hit him, said sheriff’s Lt. Matthew Glisson.

She then accidentally shot herself in the leg, Glisson said.

Some people at the park were able to get the gun away from the woman and held her down until deputies arrived, Glisson said. They told deputies she was cursing and yelling she was going to get the guy she had been shooting at, he said.


The woman was taken by paramedics to a hospital and likely will be arrested after she is treated, the lieutenant said.

It was not clear what prompted the shooting.


karen.kucher@sduniontribune.com