By Associated Press - Sunday, March 9, 2014

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) - Police in Decatur say a man and woman are out of the hospital after they were both accidentally shot while lying in bed.

Detective Joshua Fisher tells the Decatur Daily (https://bit.ly/1cHdmLr ) that a 41-year-old woman and her 24-year-old boyfriend were lying in bed Sunday morning when he decided to clean his gun. The gun discharged, hitting him in his left hand and the woman in her right leg.

Police say they were both taken to Decatur Morgan Hospital.



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Information from: The Decatur Daily, https://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/index.shtml

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