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Z Club located off of Dort Highway in Flint.

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FLINT, MI -- A nightclub security guard is recovering in the hospital after shooting himself in the butt, police say.

Flint Police responded to a call reporting "a gunshot wound to the buttock" around 11:20 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 13 at the Z Club nightclub on S. Dort Hwy., said Michigan State Police Lt. David Kaiser.

Z Club, which reopened in April 2016, has a history of shootings. However, police say this injury was self-inflicted.

According to Kaiser, the 23-year-old nightclub security guard was placing his handgun into his waistband when he accidentally fired the gun into his butt cheek.

The man was hospitalized and is reported as being in stable condition.