Habersham man airlifted after accidental shooting

DEMOREST – A Habersham County man was airlifted for medical treatment after accidentally shooting himself Tuesday afternoon.

Sheriff Joey Terrell said the unidentified man apparently shot himself in the thigh with a 9-mm handgun while cleaning the firearm or preparing to clean it around 3:30 p.m. The incident happened inside a house on Elm Drive across from The Torch Worship Center off Cannon Bridge Road

Police: Husband accidentally shot wife while cleaning gun

A 25-year-old woman is expected to recover from a single gunshot wound after her husband accidentally shot her inside their Semoran Boulevard apartment late Monday, police said.

John Massallo Acevedo, 23, was standing in the kitchen of his Resort at Lake Frederica apartment about 8 p.m. when he attempted to remove the slide to his 9 mm Glock pistol and it fired.

The bullet struck his wife, Jean Santiago Zambrana, in the right arm and entered her abdomen, according to an Orlando Police incident report.