UPDATE: Police identify woman shot in Connellsville Township
State police have identified a woman who was shot while sitting outdoors in Connellsville Township Wednesday evening as 21-year-old Kelly Lynn Brooks of Dunbar.
Trooper Stefani Plume said Brooks was sitting on a rock in an area known as South Connellsville Beach on the Youghiogheny River around 6:45 p.m. when she was struck in the left thigh by a bullet.
Trooper Alec J. Hamilton said Brooks was initially taken to Highlands Hospital in Connellsville for treatment and later flown by medical helicopter to UPMC-Presbyterian hospital in Pittsburgh.
Plume said that the bullet apparently traveled through Brooks’ leg and then struck her left forearm.
Police have not identified a suspect in the incident and it is not clear where the round was fired from.
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