SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A Syracuse man has been charged after accidentally shooting himself and another man Saturday evening, according to a police spokesman.

Officers arrived at the 200 block of Fairfield Avenue around 6:40 p.m. regarding a shooting. They found two men in their early 60s with gunshot wounds.

One man, identified as Lance Erb, 61, was shot in the hand, and another man, 61, was shot in the stomach.

Police discovered that Erb was handling the gun in the home and then accidentally fired it. The single round struck both his hand and the victim’s stomach, police said.

Both men were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

Erb is being charged with first-degree reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and criminal possession of a firearm.

He’s being held at the Onondaga County Justice Center.

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