A woman who was accidentally shot in the head by her 6-year-old daughter was in satisfactory condition Tuesday in LDS Hospital, a nursing supervisor said.

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Lori Lucero, 26, was shot in the left side of her head by her daughter, who apparently found a loaded .22-caliber handgun lying on the floor of her aunt's house and mistook it for a toy, Salt Lake police said.A man who was in the residence at the time of the shooting fled the scene, although authorities were positive the shooting was an accident.

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