CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland man said he wrestled a gun from a drug dealer who pistol-whipped and shot him as they argued over the size of a bag of marijuana, police said.

The 31-year-old man suffered a cut on his head and a gunshot to the leg in the incident, which happened late Wednesday near the intersection of West 73rd Street and Madison Avenue, police reports say. The gunshot victim drove himself to a home on East 113th Street near Benham Avenue before he reported the shooting just after midnight Thursday.

An ambulance took him to University Hospitals for treatment.

The man said he went to the West Side to buy weed from a drug dealer he knew as “K.O.” They argued over the size of the bag, and K.O. pulled out a gun, police reports say.

K.O. struck the man in the head with the pistol and shot him in the leg. The man grabbed the gun and threatened to kill K.O. as they struggled over it, police reports say.

K.O. let go of the gun, and the man took it with him when he got back into his car and drove away.

The man left the gun, a Smith & Wesson .38 Special, on the back porch of the East 113th Street home before he called police. Officers took the gun as evidence, and discovered it four live rounds and one spent round in the gun, police reports say.

Detectives from the Cleveland police department’s Second District are investigating the shooting.

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