Oh Christmas Tree, What's With The Shooting Spree? Real Alaska

I found this in the Mill Creek community paper after Dim Sum and had to verify if this story was true
the whole story: Rural Alaska

Sounds like the basis for another classic christmas song "The Tannenbuam Went On A Shooting Spree".

Christmas tree shoots rural Alaska teenager, state troopers report Craig Medred | Dec 22, 2011 ....They then loaded the tree into a sled, which also contained a .22 caliber rifle. Elim is one of Alaska’s many "subsistence" communities where people commonly carry firearms into the surrounding woods in case a meal walks into view in the form of a snowshoe hare, grouse or ptarmigan. ....the trigger was pulled either by a branch from the Christmas tree in the sled or a branch from an overhanging tree.'' The gun went off, and the teenager was unlucky. Though stray bullets miss people more often than not, according to troopers, this one hit her in the "front left shoulder.'