FLINT, MI -- While fighting with his girlfriend, a man shot out her car window, then accidentally shot himself in the leg, according to a police report.

Flint police were called to the 800 block of Buckingham Avenue on Thursday, September 26 around 2:45 p.m. for a shooting with a man down. When they arrived they found a 22-year-old man lying in the street after accidentally shooting himself in the right leg.

The man's 20-year-old girlfriend told police she and her boyfriend got into an argument when he grabbed her by the hair and threw her to the ground. She said he then pulled out a black handgun and shot out her front driver side window.

According to the report, when the suspect was putting the handgun away, it went off hitting him in the lower right leg. The man was then taken to Hurley Medical Center where he was listed in good condition.

The woman was not injured in the shooting.

Amanda Emery is a police reporter for MLive-Flint Journal. Contact her at aemery@mlive.com or 810-285-0792. Follow her on Twitter or Facebook.

