Updated at 1:19 p.m.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A 53-year-old man is being airlifted after a gunshot accident during target practice with his 12-year-old son near Vader.
Deputies were called shortly after 12:30 p.m. to the 200 block of Telegraph Road.
“They had some sort of problem with the gun and were trying to fix it when the man was shot in the hand,” Cmdr. Steve Aust said. “It was a ‘through and through’.”
The boy was standing nearby when it happened and got some scrapes, possibly from getting hit with bone fragments from his father, Aust said.
Aust said the hand injury itself is not life threatening, but there were concerns about the amount of blood loss.
Just two days ago, a 40-year-old man accidentally fired a 9 mm bullet through his hand and into his wife’s thigh outside a shopping center in Chehalis.
Police said the Rochester resident had just purchased a new holster and was putting his gun inside it in the parking lot at Sunbird Shopping Center.