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PARMA, Ohio -- A Brook Park man who accidentally shot himself in the arm last week is accused of trying to conceal the gaffe by telling officers he'd been robbed.

The 27-year-old man reported Jan. 27 at 7:03 p.m. that he'd been robbed on Greenwood View Drive in Parma. The man told officers that a man wearing a ski mask shot him in the arm during the incident, according to police.

Officers noticed inconsistencies in the man's account and, when pressed, the man admitted he'd made up the robbery. The man told police he had an unsecured gun in his car's trunk and, when he went to remove it, it accidentally fired and hit him in the arm.

The man was arrested and charged with inducing panic. He received medical treatment for the gunshot wound.