Woman shot at gun show
BLOOMSBURG — A vendor accidentally shot a woman in the leg while demonstrating a gun and holster at a gun show in central Pennsylvania, police said.
The Columbia County district attorney’s office will determine whether the vendor, Geoffrey Hawk, 44, of Warminster, will face any criminal charges in Saturday’s incident at the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds, Bloomsburg Officer Brad Sharrow said.
Hawk didn’t immediately return calls to his cell phone and business, In Case of Emergency Enterprises, on Sunday. Hawk was manning a booth for his business at the Eagle Arms Gun show at the time of the shooting.
Hawk told police he thought the gun was unloaded when he demonstrated a concealed-carry wallet holster to the woman, Krista Gearhart, 25, of Orangeville.
Gearhart was treated and released for a thigh wound at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.
Hawk told police he had done the same demonstration about 20 times without incident.
