An employee of Fayetteville Safes & Firearms on Bragg Boulevard accidentally shot himself in the store Thursday, authorities said.

Fayetteville police got the call on the shooting at 5:42 p.m., police spokesman Officer Jeremy Strickland said Friday.

Dennis Ross, who owns the establishment, declined to talk about the incident. Instead, he referred any questions on the shooting to the Fayetteville Police Department.

The complete police report on the accidental shooting was not available mid-afternoon Friday, Strickland said. He said the report wasn't "in the server."

Strickland did not know the name of the person who shot himself. The person was 53.

A source told the Observer that the employee had been shot in the stomach.

The victim's condition was unavailable.

"I heard there was a shooting inside the store," said Jasmine Gallardo, who is manager of the neighboring Sexy By Nature lingerie store. "Someone came and told me someone had shot themselves in the back of the store. I thought it was a gun shop."

Gallardo said she saw the police cars out front when police responded to the call. Paramedics, she added, arrived on the scene, too.

Donna Jean Davis, who works at the safes and firearms business across the boulevard from Eutaw Shopping Center, said the store's only other employee was a man named Mike. She said she didn't know his last name, and did not know if he was the person who shot himself.

At the most, Strickland said, the shooting victim would be charged with discharging a firearm in the city limits.

"A lot of times it would be charged on a citation," he added. "It's arrestable because it's in the city limits."

Fayetteville Safes & Firearms, on the 2700 block of Bragg Boulevard, has been open about two years. It's located in a strip mall, between Sexy By Nature and a Bingo parlor.

Ross also owns Carthage Shooting Sports, a gun shop in nearby Moore County, Davis said.

Staff writer Michael Futch can be reached at mfutch@fayobserver.com or 910-486-3529.