Adriano in shooting incident

Corinthians striker Adriano was involved as a 20-year-old was shot in the hand in the early hours of Friday.

Adriane Cirilo dos Pintos was taken to the Barra D’Or hospital and given emergency attention.

The young woman said that Adriano was playing with a .40-caliber pistol in the back seat of the vehicle when the gun had fired.

However, Adriano denies her version of events.

“I was in the front seat; the shooting was done in the back seat,” the striker was quoted by Globoesporte.

The woman is in stable condition at the hospital but must undergo further tests on Saturday and may need surgery because the bullet fractured her left hand.

Neither Adriano nor Corinthians have commented on the incident, and the player said he would not give evidence at the police station because of the possibility of an uproar caused by his presence.