A Colorado Springs man faces a criminal citation after shooting himself in the leg while trying to kill a raccoon just after midnight Wednesday morning.

Don Upshaw has been cited for a misdemeanor charge of prohibited use of a weapon.

Colorado Springs police answered a call of a shooting in the 2500 block of Weston Road.

When they arrived in the neighborhood, however, they tracked Upshaw to his garage in the 3000 block of Delta Drive suffering from a gunshot wound to his lower leg.

“The male stated he was attempting to shoot a raccoon on a telephone pole, with his revolver handgun, and accidentally shot himself in the lower leg,” a police report says.

Upshaw was taken to Memorial Hospital and treated for non-life threatening injuries.

And cited.

The raccoon escaped unscathed.