CLEVELAND, Ohio — A 65-year-old man told police he was half asleep when he accidentally shot his girlfriend, police reports say.

The man was arrested in connection with the shooting. Formal charges have not been filed.

The shooting happened about 3 a.m. Friday at a home on East 125th Street, north of St. Clair Avenue in the city’s Glenville neighborhood.

The man told police he was “half asleep” in bed with his 62-year-old girlfriend when he heard her groaning. He said he asked her what was wrong and saw she had been shot, according to police reports.

He told police that he looked down and saw he had a gun in his hand. He ran to another room and told his niece to call the police because he had just shot the woman, according to police reports.

Officers found the woman in bed with a gunshot wound to her hip. She was taken to University Hospitals, where she was in serious condition and unable to talk to police officers, according to police reports.

Police found the revolver in the bedroom. The man told police the gun belonged to a friend and that it wasn’t his, according to police reports.

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