By Associated Press - Friday, June 29, 2018

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Authorities say a man has accidentally shot himself in the leg in St. Louis.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that police were called Wednesday afternoon to a car wash for a shooting. Police the shooting happened as the 27-year-old man was pulling a gun out of his waistband. It wasn’t immediately clear where the shooting took place or why he had drawn the weapon.

Police say the man was taken to a hospital in stable condition.

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Information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, http://www.stltoday.com

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