Ogden police say a woman who was shot in the hip claimed initially she was sleeping when someone woke her up and told her she had been shot. Instead, they say, she was the victim of careless gun handling.

Police Lt. Scott Sangberg said Wednesday that when officers first arrived at 10 p.m. Tuesday to check out reports of a gunshot, they found a 36-year-old woman lying on the floor in an apartment near 700 North and Pine Street.

"She had what appeared to be a small-caliber gunshot wound to her hip," Sangberg said. "Initially, she said that she didn't know what had happened, that someone had awakened her and told her she had been shot, and then that person left."

Neighbors, however, said they had seen no one arrive or leave the apartment around the time of the gunshot.

Later, at the hospital, the woman changed her story, Sangberg said. She told an officer that a friend and his girlfriend had been with her earlier Tuesday night and the man was playing with a handgun when it accidentally went off.

Sangberg said detectives were attempting Wednesday to locate and question the man.

The woman remained hospitalized but was expected to make a full recovery. "Her injury was not considered life-threatening," Sangberg said.