AKRON, Ohio -- An Akron man accidentally shot himself in the leg while trying to pull a gun on two marijuana dealers Thursday in the city's Summit Lake neighborhood, police said.

Amir Peak, 18, was then shot in the legs several times by one of the suspected dealers just before midnight on Russell Avenue near Oberlin Street, police said.

Peak suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the incident.

He is charged with aggravated robbery and felonious assault in the incident, police said.

Peak and another man planned to rob two men and take two pounds of marijuana from them, police said. He was pulling a gun from his waistband when it fired and struck his leg.

One of the suspected dealers, Aljuwon Eiland-Sims, shot Peak several more times in the legs, police said.

Akron Fire Department paramedics took Peak to Cleveland Clinic Akron General for treatment.

Eiland-Sims, 19, of Streetsboro, was also arrested and charged with felonious assault, police said. He remains in custody at the Summit County Jail.

The incident remains under investigation, police said.

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