RUSTON, La. -- A Louisiana Tech University student is charged with negligent injury and illegally discharging a firearm after an alleged accidental shooting that sent another student to a hospital.

Ruston police say 19-year-old Samuel Breen, of Greenwood, accidentally fired a gun early Friday in his room at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house on the Louisiana Tech campus.

The bullet ricocheted and police say a fragment hit 18-year-old freshman Chelsea Wilder, of Shreveport, in her wrist and forearm. Wilder was treated at Lincoln General Hospital in Ruston for wounds authorities described as minor and was released shortly after the shooting.

Breen is charged with one count each of negligent injury and illegally discharging a firearm within city limits.

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