Hurt man shot himself in groin

A man who was shot at as he stood in front of an East Side convenience store last week was struck by a bullet when his own gun went off, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

Police had responded to a shooting in the 900 block of F Street around 4:15 p.m. Feb. 12.

Police initially reported that Brion Lorence Alezander Shields, 27, had been shot as he fled from assailants who fired on him at the convenience store at Morningview Drive and Wheatley Avenue.

Shields fled to a nearby home as his attackers pursued him in a car, still shooting, according to the affidavit.

When officers found Shields, he was bleeding on a porch in the 900 block of F Street with a gunshot wound to his groin area, the affidavit said.

Shields was taken to San Antonio Military Medical Center in stable condition, officers said.

Investigators later determined that Shields suffered the wound when a gun he held in his waistband went off.

He was arrested Tuesday and charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm along with other charges from an unrelated incident last year.