FLINT – A Flint man is being treated at a local hospital Monday, Nov. 10 after police said he was accidentally shot by his friend inside a Flint home.

The shot was fired around 10 p.m. Monday in the 2000 block of Sherff Place, between Commonwealth and Vernon avenues. Flint police Lt. Mark Boudreau said it appears there was no malicious intent behind the shooting.

"There's nothing to tell us it wasn't accidental," Boudreau said. There was no argument or altercation between the two men, he said. The friend was just trying to handle the gun, Boudreau said, and was unfamiliar with handling it when it went off.

Flint police and Michigan State Police responded to the scene, while onlookers saw the victim taken away on a stretcher to the ambulance.

The type of gun and the victim's condition were not immediately available.