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A 19-year-old La Crosse man was jailed on an allegation of second-degree recklessly endangering safety after he dropped a semi-automatic handgun that accidentally discharged when he tried to catch it, shooting two friends with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

Tyler Fosbinder told police he didn’t know the Hi-Point .45-caliber semi-automatic was loaded when he was showing it to them at about 7:15 p.m. Friday in his apartment on the 100 block of Seventh Street.

The gun slipped from his hand and fired when he caught it, with the bullet going through one friend’s wrist and into the thigh of the other friend, according to the police report.

Fosbinder took the pair to Gundersen Health System, where, at the urging of one of them, he left them and intended to go back later. A nurse notified police that two gunshot victims were being treated, so officers went to the hospital and interviewed them, according to the police report.

The officers went to Fosbinder’s apartment, but nobody answered their knocks, the police report said. Inhabitants of nearby apartments told police they hadn’t heard anything, but the occupant of one apartment said he had heard a loud bang and several people leaving the apartment in a hurry.