From SPD’s report on the incident

Seattle Police say that injuries to a man shot in the groin in what he said was an overnight street robbery on Capitol Hill appear to have been self-inflicted.

CHS reported here on the last early Thursday morning incident in which the victim said he was robbed and shot at Harvard and Denny by a black male with chin-length dreadlocks, wearing a beanie and a blue rain jacket.

The East Precinct’s report on the incident casts doubt on the victim’s story, reporting that the man first told officers he was held up but later admitted to police at the hospital that he shot himself. SPD says the man was hit with one shot with the bullet traveling “through his genitals and into his thigh.”

The shooting appeared to be accidental. Police say the injuries were “consistent with a negligent discharge of a firearm being carried at the right appendix inner-waistband.”

Police searched the man and the street and sidewalks where the shooting took place but could not locate a firearm. They say the man entered a 10th Ave E apartment building after the shooting before meeting police and Seattle Fire back out on the street and believe the firearm may have been left in the building.

The man was being treated at Harborview in critical condition.

Police say the man could face charges in the incident. “XXXX is a convicted felon with a most recent felony conviction of unlawful possession of a firearm,” the SPD report reads. “XXXX is prohibited from possessing firearms, making shooting himself a violation of RCW 9.41.040.1A.”

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