Handgun accident injures teenager

A 17-year-old boy accidentally shot himself Thursday near Green Valley, a Pima County Sheriff’s spokesperson said.

At 11:30 a.m., a call came in that a .45 caliber handgun had accidentally discharged, wounding the teenager in the hand and upper thigh, spokesperson Dawn Hanke said.

The accident occurred while the teen was practicing shooting with his father in the desert near Canoa Ranch Road and the Interstate 19 frontage road, she said.

He was taken to University Medical Center with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

Pima County Sheriff’s officers and the Green Valley Fire District responded to the scene.

Meanwhile, Hanke said Thursday a body discovered in a Green Valley home last Friday night has not been positively identified.

The badly decomposed body found in the Villages of Green Valley home of David Taub should be identified by this weekend, Hanke said.

Authorities are waiting on the results of coroner’s examination, she said.

Taub was charged for the October murder of his wife, Sherry Taub. He said he found his wife beaten to death after stopping in their RV at a New Mexico truck stop.

The day he was charged, Taub was found unconscious and in possession of two suicide notes, and was believed to have attempted suicide, reports said.

A Pima County Sheriff’s officer discovered the body Friday after receiving a phone call to check on Taub’s welfare, Hanke said.

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