April 6, 2016
By Paul Joseph, Paragon Communications News Director –
A Clinton man who shot himself by accident has been arrested for allegedly pointing a gun at others.
According to a story in the Clinton Daily News, 27-year-old Mikel Alex Salinas shot himself in the wrist recently, but was later arrested for allegedly pointing a gun at his three of his neighbors.
When officers went to handcuff him last Saturday, Salinas still had the bandages on from the self-shooting.
Detective Captain Mike Murley of the Clinton Police Department says police were called about 12:15 Saturday morning to an alley in the 500 block of South 11th Street. When officers arrived, they met with neighbors who pointed to a nearby yard and said two men there had a gun. The men had an argument with the neighbors. One went to his residence and then returned to the alley with what was described as a black handgun and allegedly pointed the gun at all three neighbors. That man has been identified as Salinas.
When one of the neighbors told Salinas they were going to call the police, Salinas allegedly went back to the yard he had come from and hid the gun.
The other man with Salinas was reported to be his Salinas’ brother and the two had been working on a pickup when the verbal altercation started.
Murley says no shots were ever fired and no one was injured.
Salinas is due in court on May 13 on the charge of feloniously pointing a firearm for a preliminary hearing conference.
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