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Chesterfield County police are still investigating a Monday incident in which a woman shot a man in the leg in what she claims was self-defense as he and another man tried to rob her.

Nobody had been charged as of Tuesday evening, but Chesterfield police are trying to determine exactly what happened.

Chesterfield Lt. John Miller said police began receiving phone calls from residents near the shooting scene in the 2900 block of Appleford Drive shortly before 6 p.m. Monday.

The woman told police that she was in her car when two men tried to rob her with a handgun, prompting her to shoot in their direction with her own handgun, striking one of the men in his leg, authorities said.

The injured man was taken to VCU Medical Center with a non-life-threatening wound.

None of the people involved in the shooting lives in that neighborhood, according to police, who say the woman knows the men she claimed tried to rob her.