Ken Harris said the bullet that struck his nephew Norman Couch in the arm on Monday night was meant to be a warning shot.

Harris said Couch hadn’t paid for his electricity at the trailer Harris owns on South Texoma Road in Mead for the last two years, so Harris disconnected it.

“He got really mad and come charging me like a wild ------ crazy man and I said Norman, I don’t think you want to do this,” Harris said. “And I raised my gun up and I shot him. I didn’t mean to shoot him. It was an accident.”

The shooting happened just before 7 p.m.

"And I went over here and dialed 911 to tell them what happened,” Harris said. “The lady on the 911 call said you still have the gun and I said yeah, I have it right here. She said go put it up."

“Those sheriffs were here for 2 or 3 hours. I drank a whole 6 pack of Dr. Pepper.”

Bryan County Sheriff’s Investigator John Haislip said if Harris’ account of the event is true, he was within his right to protect himself.

“He was standing on his front porch, the other guy came at him, he was much younger,” Haislip said.

Haislip said Couch got a ride to the hospital after he was shot and was flown to Plano for treatment.

No charges have been filed at this time.

“We’re going to continue the investigation, find out exactly what happened and then we’ll make the determination at this point,” Haislip said.

“He jumped me before, he jumped me about a week ago,” Harris said. “And I went to the courthouse and tried to get an eviction on him. And the judge denied it. The judge did.”

Harris said he doesn’t think he will have a problem evicting Couch anymore.

Couch is being treated for non-life threatening injuries.