Handgun hidden in oven goes off, wounds woman
AP (via Buffalo News)
YONKERS (AP) - A 22-year-old woman was wounded when a handgun that had been hidden inside an oven discharged when she opened the door, police said.
Colsaun Bailey, the 17-year-old alleged owner of the gun, was arrested, though police said they did not believe he fired the weapon, the Journal News reported Wednesday.
"We are operating on the assumption that nobody picked up the gun and fired it," Police Capt. John McCoy told the newspaper.
Police said Bailey put two handguns in a bag and then placed it inside the oven, which someone later turned on. When the woman opened the oven door to see why smoke was coming from it, one of the guns discharged, striking her, police said.
A single bullet hit her in the forearm, hip and thigh, authorities said. Police said her wounds did not appear to be life-threatening.
