Police: Shooting of woman in vehicle at Holt gas station was an accident

Ken Palmer | Lansing State Journal

DELHI TWP. - A shooting that injured a 24-year-old woman Wednesday morning appears to have been accidental, police said.

A 16-year-old boy has been petitioned into juvenile court on allegations of carrying a concealed weapon and reckless discharge of a firearm causing injury and is lodged at the Ingham County Youth Center, the Ingham County Sheriff's Office said.

The shooting victim – a Lansing woman – suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the incident, which happened inside a vehicle at a gas station in the 2500 block of East Jolly Road.

Deputies were called there about 5:20 a.m. and found blood outside the store, but everyone involved had left the scene.

The four people who had been in the car when the shooting happened went to a hospital where the victim was treated, Sheriff's Capt. Greg Harris said.

Police interviewed everyone involved and concluded the shooting was accidental, Harris said. The injured woman had been driving the vehicle, and the 16-year-old boy was a passenger, he said.

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