Via STL Today:
A 12-year-old Pennsylvania girl was home sick from school when she was accidentally shot and killed by a constable serving her father with an eviction notice, authorities said.
The girl’s father, 57-year-old Donald Meyer, pointed a loaded rifle at Constable Clark Steele and Steele fired a single shot in return, the bullet traveling through Meyer’s arm and striking Ciara Meyer, who was standing behind him, state police said.
Steele is “completely distraught over this incident — this is the worst nightmare any of us as constables can encounter,” Bill Stoeffler, a Dauphin County constable and spokesman for the region’s constables’ association, told pennlive.com.