A man is in the hospital, and a juvenile is facing charges after an accidental shooting during a traffic stop.

The incident happened just after 3 a.m. on US 68 in Jessamine County, near Southland Christian Church.

Jessamine County Chief Deputy Allen Peel said a deputy was conducting a traffic stop on a 2007 Chevrolet Trailblazer.

Four people were inside the vehicle, three adults and one juvenile.

Deputy Peel said the occupants became nervous and started passing around a firearm, trying to hide it. It was at that time one of the people in the car accidentally discharged the gun, Peel said. A bullet struck a man in the vehicle. An ambulance took the victim to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Police charged the juvenile in the vehicle with being a minor in possession of a firearm.