Not having had her morning coffee yet, a Florida woman accidentally shot her friend at Starbucks while waiting in line Wednesday morning, causing commotion in the store.
Pamela Beck, who carried a handgun in her purse, dropped the bag on the floor and it “hit the ground hard,” St. Petersburg Police spokesman Mike Puetz told The Huffington Post. The fully loaded .25 caliber semi-automatic handgun went off striking Amie Peterson, her friend, above the knee.
Beck told investigators that her father had given her the gun about a year ago, and she hadn’t intended to bring it out in public. “She had forgotten about it,” Puetz told the Huffington Post.
