An argument between St. Paul neighbors over a missing cellphone ended with a man being shot and wounded, police said.

Police responded to the Hillcrest area at 5:40 p.m. on Tuesday and found a 31-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the leg. Paramedics took him to Regions Hospital with a non-life threatening injury, said Steve Linders, a St. Paul police spokesman.

A 33-year-old woman told police she purchased a cellphone, tracked the package and confirmed it was dropped off at her residence on the 1700 block of East Larpenteur Avenue that day.

The package was nowhere to be found and the woman went to the adjoining duplex because she thought a neighbor took the phone, Linders said.

She and the neighbor got into “a verbal argument about the phone and its whereabouts” and then began to fight physically, Linders said. The neighbor pulled out a handgun and pointed it at her, she reported. Related Articles Two men face felony charges in Bloomington home invasion

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“She swatted it away and a shot was fired,” Linders said of the report. “She ran out of the house and heard additional shots.”

The woman said she didn’t know if the man shot himself or if another person in his residence shot him, Linders said.

No arrests had been made as of Wednesday afternoon. It was unknown what happened to the phone the woman ordered.