A man in Louisiana was arrested for shooting a 14-year-old girl who was playing hide-and-seek on his property.

Sheriff’s deputies in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana responded to reports of a shooting in the small town of Starks, about 30 miles west of Lake Charles and close to the border with Texas.

They arrived to find that the victim, a 14-year-old girl, suffering from a gunshot wound to the back of the head. The victim was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

David Doyle, 58, was arrested and charged with aggravated battery, four counts of aggravated assault, and illegal discharge of a firearm for the shooting.

Doyle told investigators that he ‘observed shadows outside his home,’ then ran inside to retrieve his firearm.

‘He went back outside and observed people running away from his property, at which time he began shooting at them and unknowingly hit the girl,’ the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office said.

Investigators soon discovered that the people Doyle saw running away were neighborhood children playing hide-and-seek in the area.

Doyle lives at the end of a dead-end road in a forested area outside the small town. Local news station KPLC discovered only three homes are on the remote road. They are owned by Doyle, the victim’s family, and another relative of the victim.

The US has seen a considerable number of seemingly random shootings of young people ending up at the wrong location this year.

In Kansas City, Missouri, a black teenager was shot in the head by a homeowner after ringing the doorbell at the wrong address. The teenager, 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, was picking up his younger brothers in the neighborhood.

In upstate New York, a 20-year-old woman was shot and killed by a man after she drove down the wrong driveway looking for a friend’s house in the area.

And in Texas, a cheerleader was shot and seriously injured after attempting to get into the wrong car in a parking lot.

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