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October 20, 2015 4:00 pm - NewsBehavingBadly.com

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The deputy is calling it an “accidental” shooting after the girl shot herself in the leg.

Sheriff Lynn Sheffield told WMGT that the little girl’s injury is non-life threatening.

The sheriff said the child’s mother was in the bedroom and the toddler was in another room playing at a home in Rhine.

The mother was moving a television on a chested drawer with a gun was on the furniture.

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According to Sheffield, the mother moved the weapon to the bed.

As she proceeded to move the television, she heard the gun go off.

The toddler then crawled onto the bed and accidentally fired the gun into her right leg, Sheffield said.

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