[djpg]

How can someone be a target but unintendedly so?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

“Misidentified target”?, as in the shooter hit what he was aiming at, but he was aiming at the wrong mutha.

[Right Brother]

unintended 'target'

near 'miss'

'jumbo' shrimp

[mumblypeg]

Yeah, “unintended target” is one of those phrases like “jumbo shrimp.”
Makes you go “hmmmmm.”