A man was wounded in a shootout after men broke into his apartment near Uptown on Thursday night, police said.

Police arrived at the apartment in the 5400 block of Beverly Hill, near Richmond Avenue, around 9:15 p.m. The front door was kicked open, and the victim wasn’t home, said Lt. Larry Crowson of the Houston Police Department.

The officers got word from Bellaire police that the homeowner was in the hospital with a gunshot wound to the rear, Crowson said.

The homeowner told police that he grabbed his gun after several men busted into his home, sparking a shootout. It’s unknown whether any of the suspects were hit.