A Grand Forks man has been charged with reckless endangerment in an accidental shooting that sent a bullet into an apartment, nearly hitting a woman.
An officer's report says Kyle Michael Black was playing with his friend's unloaded handgun Oct. 11 in an apartment on the 2700 block of South 38th Street. His friend later loaded the gun without telling Black, and Black resumed playing with the gun not knowing it was loaded, the report states.
The gun fired a round that went into the floor, came through the ceiling of the apartment below and bounced off a wall, almost striking a 23-year-old woman, the report says. The woman told the Herald she and two others in the apartment were shaken but not injured.
The charge against Black was filed on Friday. He has an active warrant for his arrest and does not yet have a court date.
Black is a senior at UND, according to the school's Web site. A message left on his phone was not returned Tuesday evening.
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The reckless endangerment charge against Black is a Class A misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $2,000 fine.
