Only in America.

This just in from the Beaver County Times (seriously).

A nine year old girl in western Pennsylvania was wearing a black costume with a black hat and a white tassle, outside a Halloween party, and a male relative shot her in the shoulder with a shotgun, thinking she was a skunk.

No word on her condition or whether the relative will be charged with a crime.

Shooting a 9 year old girl because she looks like a skunk. Seriously?

Guess they took that “cold dead hands” thing literally. There seem to be a lot of those lately. Sigh.