FLINT, MI -- A jury has found an East Lansing man not guilty after he was accused of shooting the mother of his then-2-year-old daughter during a child custody exchange at a vacant Vienna Township gas station.

James Andrew Smith, 44, was found not guilty Wednesday, Jan. 14, of assault with intent to murder and felony firearms in the Labor Day 2013 incident.

"He claimed it was self-defense and apparently the jury wasn't convinced by our presentation," Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said.

Smith's attorney, Mary Chartier-Mittendorf, said her client acted in self-defense when the alleged victim stabbed him. Chartier-Mittendorf said a knife was found at the scene.

Smith was arrested and charged after Ginger Don was shot in the hand and the top of the skull in the parking lot of the former BP gas station on Vienna Road.

The couple's daughter was not injured during the incident.