Story highlights Randy Meisner's wife is killed when a rifle accidentally goes off

Meisner co-founded the Eagles in 1971

(CNN) Lana Ray Meisner, the wife of Eagles co-founder Randy Meisner, died Sunday when a rifle accidentally discharged while being moved, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

North Hollywood officers responded to a call of a shooting at 7 p.m., the department said in a statement. They found Lana Meisner with a single gunshot wound.

She was pronounced dead at the scene by L.A. Fire Department personnel.

Lana Meisner was killed when she moved a rifle stored in a case in a closet, the statement said.

"As she lifted the rifle in the case, another item within the case shifted and hit the trigger of the rifle causing it to fire and fatally injure Mrs. Meisner," the statement said.

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