Delia Conçalves

WUSA-TV, Washington

PASADENA, Md. — A man survived being shot in the stomach while kayaking over the weekend, and police are looking Monday for the person who shot him.

David Seafolk-Kopp, 56, of Reston, Va., blacked out after the incident, spent the night in his kayak and made it to shore more than 12 hours later. He said he launched his kayak from a friend's home here Saturday night to stargaze and eventually stopped to take a rest.

That's when he saw a bonfire at about 10 p.m. ET and heard what sounded like a party on the shore of Bodkin Creek, a Chesapeake Bay tributary, he told police. The man said he saw a laser-like red dot on his shirt and felt pain in his abdomen.

"It's a little surprising. This is an older community on the water, so it's a little bit shocking and sad that someone would do that," resident Gus Andujar told WBAL-TV, Baltimore.

Seafolk-Kopp made it to shore about 10:30 a.m. Sunday where a resident discovered him. He was released from an area hospital Sunday night.

Investigators have no suspects, said Candy Thomson, spokeswoman for Maryland Natural Resources Police. And Seafolk-Kopp's wound is not consistent with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Contributing: The Associated Press