LANCASTER, Ohio – Police say an instructor at a Fairfield County gun safety class accidentally shot a student.
The “Columbus Dispatch” reports Terry Dunlap, Sr., 73, was demonstrating a handgun for concealed-carry permit applicants at a training facility in Carroll on Saturday when he fired a bullet that ricocheted off a desk and into the right arm of Michael Piemonte.
Piemonte, 26, says the .38-caliber bullet hit him between his elbow and armpit. He says many of the students in the class were nurses who helped stabilize him before he was transported to a Columbus hospital.
Piemonte tells the newspaper it appears Dunlap didn’t know the gun was loaded. Dunlap hasn’t responded to requests for comment.
A police report lists the shooting as accidental.