A Michigan man shot and wounded an 84-year-old pro-life door-to-door canvasser at his home last week, officials said.
Harvey told local news outletthat he had accidentally shot Jacobson while she was arguing with his wife after he had told her several times to get off their property.
He said he heard arguing coming from his barn and fired a warning shot at a tree with his wife’s .22 caliber rifle. But he said the woman kept “ranting and raving” and wildly waving her clipboard around.“So without thinking, I went to club it away with the rifle and my finger was still in the trigger guard. It went off and hit her.”
The gun discharged into the clipboard before striking her, prosecutors said. Jacobson denied that she ever waved her clipboard.in Michigan due to a 1931 state law. The law was suspended in May and struck down earlier this week as unconstitutional.
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