A 24-year-old man was arrested Thursday (March 9) after a witness said he accidentally fired a gun through the wall of a 7th Ward double, striking a woman who lived in the unit next door. New Orleans police said Kenneth Lewis was booked on one count of negligent injuring and illegal use of a weapon related to the shooting of his neighbor.

Police said the wounded woman was shot in the face.

Deondra Anderson, 37, who was at the scene as police investigated, said the victim was struck after someone misfired a gun through a wall in her mother's home. She said the gunfire entered the other side of the double, injuring her mother's tenant who lived next door.

1 wounded in 7th Ward shooting Thursday: NOPD The victim was found in the 1500 block of North Miro Street, NOPD spokeswoman Dawne Massey said in an email sent just before 11 a.m.

Anderson said she was in the house, visiting her mother, when the shooting occurred.

Police stretched yellow crime tape around the front of a blue double on the corner of North Miro and Laharpe Streets. The front door of one side of the double was open as police worked, and a group of people gathered near the front stoop of the other side of the double. Anderson was later seen talking to the group of people inside of the area roped off by crime tape.

Anderson described the shooting as "a freak accident."

NOPD said Thursday afternoon no other information about the shooting was available.