MESA, AZ -- Police say a woman and little girl were injured Saturday when a weapon accidentally fired at a Mesa gun show.
"I was two rows away, we heard the gun go off and everybody just kind of stopped," said Mike Todd, a gun show regular. "It could've been much worse."
It happened just before noon at the Mesa Convention Center, near Center and Main streets.
Police told ABC15 that a dealer brought a loaded handgun into the convention center and placed it under a table.
Someone later pulled the trigger of the gun. The bullet apparently hit the wooden butt of a rifle then went through a side door made of metal.
A woman was hit in the neck along with a little girl. Both were taken to the hospital as a precaution.
"We think the woman was hit with some shrapnel in the neck," said Detective Mike Melendez of the Mesa Police Department. "The girl might have been hit from flying wood from the butt of the gun."
Police were questioning the gun dealer involved and may charge him with recklessness.
"He won't be invited back to this gun show" said Bob Templeton, who runs the gun show. "We just had a guy here who didn't think he had to follow the rules."
According to the convention center's website, it is hosting a "Crossroads of the West" gun show this weekend.