CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland man accidentally fired a bullet through the floor and struck his sleeping mother-in-law, according to police.

The shooting happened about 10 p.m. Saturday at a home in the 3600 block of East 105th Street, south of Union Avenue in the city's Union-Miles neighborhood, police reports say.

The 32-year-old man told police he got off his bed in order to put his wife's gun in the closet when the gun fired, police reports say.

The bullet ripped through the floor and into the knee of his 51-year-old mother-in-law, who was sleeping on the couch in the room directly below, police reports say.

The mother-in-law told police that the gunshot woke her, and that she thought it was the normal pain she gets from time to time in her legs, police reports say. Her son-in-law called 911 and she was taken to University Hospitals for treatment.

The woman told police that she gets along "very well" with her son-in-law and is sure it was an accident, police reports say.

No charges have been filed against the son-in-law.

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