Girl, 12, fatally shot by constable during eviction in Pennsylvania

A 12-year-old girl was accidentally shot to death in a central Pennsylvania town by a constable who had come to evict her family from their apartment, Pennsylvania State Police said.
Girl, 12, fatally shot by constable during eviction in Pennsylvania

Ciara Meyer died when Constable Clarke Steele fired a single shot at her father, Donald Meyer, 57, who had pointed a rifle at him after an exchange of words, according to Trooper Rob Hicks.

The bullet passed through Meyer’s arm and struck the girl, who was standing behind her father.

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