A Liberty Township man wounded himself and his therapist on Saturday when he accidentally fired his handgun, the Porter County Sheriff’s Police said.

According to police, at 11:26 a.m. the 71-year-old man, a resident of the Liberty Farm Mobile Home Park at 76 E. U.S. Highway 6, “was checking the weapon to make sure it was safe and unloaded” when the Sig Sauer P938 9mm proved to be neither and discharged.

The round grazed the man’s right shin and struck the top of his right foot, while his therapist sustained graze wounds to his left hand and upper left leg, police said.

The spent round was subsequently recovered from the man’s shoe, found near the front door of his trailer, police said. The pistol was found next to the shoe, cocked, with one round in the chamber and six in the magazine, police said. It was made safe and both shoe and gun were collected as evidence.

The man and his therapist--who both advised “that this was an accidental discharge of a firearm”-- were transported to Porter Regional Hospital for treatment of their wounds.

“No evidence of a criminal offense was located,” police added.