Ontario Provincial Police have charged a 21-year-old man from Commee Township, near Thunder Bay, with careless use of a firearm and public mischief, after a bullet ricocheted off an abandoned vehicle on Saturday evening, and injured another man.
Police said at around 5:22 p.m. officers from the Armstrong OPP detachment responded to a report of a man who had suffered gunshot wounds.
Three men were at a pit in the area of Obanga Lake Road when one of them fired a rifle, police stated in a written release Tuesday..
The bullet then ricocheted off an abandoned car and hit one of the men in the abdomen.
A 22-year-old man was transported to the Thunder Bay Regional Sciences Centre by ambulance with non-life threatening injuries, police said.
The 21-year-old from Commee Township is scheduled to appear in court on July 24, 2018.