Community Corrections worker shot, wounded during training
Posted June 18, 2019 7:00 am
AUBURN, Ind. (AP) - Authorities say a pretrial services coordinator in northeastern Indiana has been accidentally shot and wounded during a training exercise.
DeKalb County Community Corrections says in a statement that the man was at the Auburn Police Department's training center when he "accidentally discharged a semi-automatic pistol" during a training exercise Monday. He was treated at a hospital and released after being shot in the right leg.
The 35-year-old man is described as a 5-year employee of Community Corrections. It wasn't immediately known whether anyone would face discipline in the shooting.
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