Police said no one was injured when shots were fired inside a Central Avenue apartment Monday night, the result of a woman interrupting a suicide attempt by her mother.

Bath police responded to a report of a shooting at 8:36 p.m. Lt. Stan Cielinski said that, on arrival, Sgt. Dan Couture and officers Jason Aucoin and Garrett Olson “found a house full of intoxicated people,” Cielinski said.

According to a release issued Tuesday by Police Chief Michael Field, officers found two people restraining an “intoxicated and emotional” 56-year-old woman. Officers learned there had been a party involving alcohol at the apartment and, at some point, the woman went into the bathroom.

“Her adult daughter became concerned and checked on her mother,” Field said in the release. “The daughter found her holding a .25-caliber handgun and attempted to take it away. A struggle over the gun ensued and two shots were fired before the daughter was able to take it away.”

Cielinski told The Times Record the two bullets hit the wall of a shower, behind which is the apartment’s brick exterior wall. The shots were contained within the apartment. No one was struck.

The woman was transported by Bath Rescue to Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick for evaluation, Cielinski said.

There were seven people in the apartment, Cielinski said, and all were intoxicated and emotional but cooperative with police. Their levels of intoxication made it difficult for police to determine what had happened, he said.

No one was charged and the incident remains under investigation.

Cielinski characterized the incident as an attempted suicide.

There is no crime in Maine for suicide or attempted suicide, and rather than charge reckless conduct with a firearm, Cielinski said what’s important to police is that the person involved gets the help he or she needs.

“Over the years we’ve had a number of suicides by firearm,” Cielinski said. “Most of them are successful and it’s lucky that, even though this family member was intoxicated, she was able to see that something was going on and force her way into the bathroom” and get the gun away.

The Bath Police Department encourages anyone dealing with depression or a crisis to seek help by calling the 24 hour statewide crisis hotline at 1-(888) 568-1112.

dmoore@timesrecord.com