LEBANON — A 20-year-old Lebanon man was transported to PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield Wednesday afternoon, suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

According to Lebanon Police Chief Frank Stevenson, officers were called Wednesday morning to the 800 block of West Sherman Street by a neighbor.

Officers found the man with a .22-caliber rifle wound to the head. He was taken by ambulance to Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital and later in the day transported by air helicopter to PeaceHealth, where he remained unconscious and on life support.

According to Stevenson, the man’s wife, their 8–month-old child and his mother-in-law were in the home. The man reportedly became upset because his wife wanted to take the child to an eighth-grade graduation program later in the day.

Stevenson said the man pushed his wife and his mother-in-law grabbed the child. The man then struck the mother-in-law in the face and the two women took the child and fled the home. Neighbors working outside heard the women screaming, took them into their home and called 9-1-1.

Shortly after, the neighbors saw the man stumble and fall in a nearby grassy field. He was not carrying a firearm, a rifle, at the time.