A woman was accidentally shot in the butt Tuesday night while Windham police escorted her out of the Lewiston police station, the Lewiston Sun Journal reported.
The woman, who was being picked up at the station by Windham police relating to a burglary charge there, began to fight with officers resulting in her grabbing a Windham officer’s gun while it was in the holster.
“She was very uncooperative and fighting,” Lewiston police Lt. Derrick St. Laurent told the newspaper.
The bullet ricocheted off the pavement after hitting the woman, but no one else was struck.
The woman, who was later identified as Tameika Girardin, 24, of Lewiston was taken to a hospital and released a few hours later.
Correction: A previous version of this story included incorrect information. The woman did not pull down the officer’s pants, and the incident occurred as she was being led out of the police station. A previous version of the story also misspelled Lt. Derrick St. Laurent’s name.