Former WHO (Des Moines) Anchor Sonya Heitshusen has been ordered to complete a firearm safety class after being convicted of mishandling a handgun.

Heitshusen was charged in June 2022 with reckless use of a firearm after police said she accidentally fired a shot through a sliding glass door in her home.

Heitshusen, who spent a combined total of nearly 28 years as a reporter at WOI-TV, then as a reporter and news anchor at WHO-TV, is now communications director for Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand's office.

She said in a statement last year she has guns in the home due to a history of threats against her as a journalist and political candidate and that "an accidental discharge of the firearm occurred" as she was checking one of the weapons.

H/T Des Moines Register