SILVER CITY A 65-year-old man is in stable condition Tuesday afternoon after being accidentally shot at a gun shop on Hudson Street in Silver City.
Silver City Police Chief Ed Reynolds said an employee at Copper County Sporting Arms was unloading a .45 caliber handgun when the weapon went off and hit the customer in the back.
Emergency responders from the Silver City Police Department, the Grant County Sheriff's Department, the Silver City Fire Department, and Gila Regional Medical Center arrived on the scene and blocked off Hudson Street from College Avenue to Broadway so that a helicopter could land on Hudson Street to airlift the victim to an El Paso hospital for treatment. The chopper landed in front of the Chevron station on Hudson and took off at 10:40 a.m. for El Paso. No names are being released at this time.
The investigation is ongoing, Reynolds said, and it is unclear whether any charges will be filed.
A person who answered the phone at Copper Country declined to talk to the Sun-News on Tuesday.
More information will be released as it becomes available. Keep up with the story at www.scsun-news.com.
Benjamin Fisher can be reached at (575) 538-5893 ext. 5803.