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By News Sentinel Staff

KNOXVILLE - Police have identified the man who shot himself in the leg outside the Cheesecake Factory at West Town Mall Friday as a 23-year-old Knoxville resident.

Jacob Brumbaugh, of Knoxville, shot himself in the left leg with a Glock handgun, said Knoxville police spokesman Darrell DeBusk. Brumbaugh does have a gun carry permit, DeBusk said.

Police responded to the call of a man accidentally shooting himself at about 9:45 p.m. and found Brumbaugh lying in the restaurant parking lot.

Friends had applied pressure to the gunshot wound in attempt to control the bleeding and officers then put a tourniquet on the leg. Brumbaugh was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries, according to police.

More detail as they develop online and in Tuesday's News Sentinel.