A 19-year-old Indiana woman was fatally shot when a 22-year-old friend riding in the backseat of her car accidentally discharged an AR-15 style assault rifle, according to police.
A 19-year-old Indiana woman -- described by her pastor as a"bubbly young lady who had a bright future" -- was fatally shot when a 22-year-old friend riding in the backseat of her car accidentally discharged an AR-15 style assault rifle, according to police.
Police said the tragedy unfolded on Tuesday afternoon as McMillan was driving with three friends in Marion, about 85 miles northeast of Indianapolis, Deputy Chief Stephen Dorsey of the Marion Police Department said in a statement. Austin Smith, 22, was riding in McMillan's car, seated behind the driver's seat when the .223-caliber rifle he was holding went off, police said. A bullet penetrated the driver's seat and hit McMillan in the back, causing her to crash, according to police.
Smith was arrested on suspicion of criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon and reckless homicide. He was being held on Sunday at the Grant County Jail on $1,005 bond, according to jail records."The last text that she sent to her stepfather was that she loved him and, those things are glued to hold tight when everything is trying to blow you apart," Rev. Mark Atkinson, McMillan's pastor at the Eastview Wesleyan Church in Gas City told WXIN-TV in Indianapolis.
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