CLEVELAND, Ohio — A security guard shot and wounded a man late Wednesday outside a store in the city’s Central neighborhood, police said.

The shooting happened about 10:40 p.m. outside the Discounts R Us store on East 55th Street, north of Woodland Avenue. No arrests have been made in the case. A 41-year-old man was shot in the upper thigh and was treated at MetroHealth.

The 41-year-old man told police that earlier in the day he got into a fight with a third man inside the store and that the security guard failed to break up the fight. He said he got angry at the guard, who police have not identified. He said he told the guard: “I’m going to get you back for this.”

The man said he returned to the store about an hour later and challenged the security guard to a fight. The guard refused to leave the store, so the man smashed the guard’s car with a rock, according to police reports.

The guard walked outside and pointed a gun at him and the two argued, according to police reports.

The security guard aimed his gun at the man’s groin and fired, hitting the man’s left thigh, according to police reports. The man walked to Case Court and East 49th Street, where he flagged down a police officer.

The security guard went back in the store and told the owner he was leaving. The store owner told police he saw the argument and the security guard shoot the man.

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