A woman reportedly shot herself in the lower part of her left leg on accident Tuesday morning as she tried to put a gun down.

Odessa Police Department spokesman Cpl. Steve LeSueur said police were called out at 11:43 a.m. Tuesday to the 1700 block of La Casa Drive about a gunshot victim.

The woman reportedly told police that she was setting the gun down when it went off and shot her.

LeSueur said she was transported to Medical Center Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.