DEWITT, N.Y. -- A Texas man cleaning his own gun shot himself in the finger at a DeWitt hotel on Tuesday, DeWitt police said.

A call was received at the Onondaga County Dispatch Center about a shooting at the Days Inn on Thompson Road at 11 a.m., according to dispatch logs.

Christopher Compton, of Texas, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, police said, and is scheduled to return to Town of DeWitt Court on May 15, police said.

An ambulance took Compton to the hospital, where he was treated for his injuries and cooperated with an investigation, police said.