Missouri woman gets probation in cousin’s shooting
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Missouri woman will serve five years’ probation in that state after pleading guilty to accidentally shooting her Pittsburgh-area cousin with a gun she believed wasn’t loaded.
Twenty-eight-year Stephanie Munizza was sentenced immediately after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Allegheny County on Tuesday.
She had been on house arrest and living with the parents of the victim, 27-year-old Joshua Poremski, who lived in the Pittsburgh suburb of Upper St. Clair.
Authorities say both had been drinking beer and whiskey and were talking about Munizza possibly getting a concealed carry permit, before Poremski offered his gun to her about 4 a.m. Nov. 1.
Defense attorney David Shrager says the Maryland Heights woman had never held a gun before and was told it was unloaded before she pointed it at Poremski’s head and fired.