(Lavonia, GA) - A woman staying at a northeast Georgia motel this week shot herself while trying to light a cigarette - with a loaded pistol.

Police say 21-year-old Olivia Hutcherson had been arrested for fighting at a Waffle House in Lavonia shortly before she shot herself in the hand with a 22-caliber pistol.

Lavonia Police Chief Randy Shirley said Hutcherson was staying with two other people at a Best Western motel at about 6 a.m. on Sunday. He said that when she reached onto a nightstand for what she thought was a lighter, she instead grabbed a pistol owned by 56-year-old Bobby Brown, of Royston.

About 90 minutes earlier, police reports say Hutcherson had slapped a man in the face three times after she said he touched her inappropriately.

Five witnesses told police they never saw the man touch her.



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