Bowie County Texas Sheriff's Deputies continue to investigate a shooting incident which sent a nine year old girl to the hospital.Authorities were sent to a home on County Road 3402 outside of DeKalb on Tuesday. A couple told deputies that their nine year old daughter was adjusting the curtains on a window, when they heard a gunshot.

They discovered that the girl had been struck in the leg with a small pellet forma shotgun, believed to be a bird or squirrel shot. She was transported to a local hospital where she was treated and released.

If you have any information on this incident you are asked to phone the Bowie County Sheriffs Department at (903) 798-3022.

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