WINTER PARK, Fla. -- A Winter Park High School student was in the hospital Thursday morning, recovering from a gunshot wound. Orange County investigators said he was accidentally shot at an apartment complex while looking at a handgun with another student.

"While inside the car he showed his gun to another person inside the vehicle and that person accidently shot him while handling the weapon," said Commander Spike Hopkins of the Orange County Sherriff's Office.

The bullet hit the student in the leg and he was taken to Winter Park Hospital in serious condition.