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Jeff Gegelman of rural Golden Valley spent Monday at the flower shop he and his wife own in Beulah, happy that none of the flowers were being arranged for his own funeral.

Gegelman, 60, was shot in the chest and twice in the arm Sunday by one of two men who entered his home, while a third man remained in the car outside. He was airlifted to a Bismarck hospital and released, the bullet still lodged in fatty tissue in his chest after ricocheting off one of his ribs. Other bullets scraped the flesh on the outside of his arm.

The alleged shooter, who was picked up by law enforcement while driving himself to the hospital in Hazen, is in custody at the jail in Stanton. No charges have yet been brought and no names were being released, said Mercer County Sheriff Dean Danzeisen. The other two men apparently remain at large.

Gegelman was home alone around 3:30 p.m., when the three men drove a small car into his yard, came up to the house and knocked loudly at the door.

He didn’t like the looks of them, so he remained quiet in the house while they got back into the car. They made a U-turn in the yard, and two got back out and came up to the door.