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Woman shot while waiting in line at store

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JACKSONVILLE (AP) – A Jacksonville woman waiting in line at a grocery store was shot when the man in front of her dropped a gun.

Seventy-year-old Flossie Mae Bell told police she was waiting to check out Friday afternoon when the man dropped a leather pouch and she felt a sudden pain in her leg. A store worker said he heard a loud pop.

Bell was treated at a local hospital.

Sixty-seven-year-old Woodrow Monlyn Jr. was arrested for carrying a concealed firearm. He told police he had never carried the .25-caliber pistol in public before and didn’t know he needed a perm