Pennsylvania state police say a 12-year-old girl accidentally shot herself in the abdomen after mishandling a .22-caliber rifle in her home.
Police are not releasing the name of the girl who authorities first believed had been shot outside her home Monday as she left for school about 7 a.m. That prompted the Pennsylvania Game Commission to investigate whether the girl might have been wounded by a hunter's stray bullet.
But police now say the girl grabbed the rifle and was returning it to a safe when it fell and discharged in her Snyder Township home.
The Tyrone Area School District was on an exterior lockdown after the shooting, meaning classes operated normally but no visitors were allowed on school property.
The lockdown was lifted about 11 a.m. Monday.
