Police said the victim fired her gun in self-defense after interviewing witnesses and reviewing store surveillance footage.
Booking photo of Kapri Lashawn Francis, who was charged with assault causing bodily injury following an incident at a Des Moines, Iowa, grocery store.
"I decided to come over here to the corner, and I was like, what’s going on?," Michell Boyum, owner of Sun Seekers Tanning, told KCCI. "One of the employees was down here crying, and she ran to me. And she was like there was a shooting and I immediately grabbed her because she’s maybe 17 years old."
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