YAKIMA -- Police say they have debunked a man's claim that he was shot by someone in a passing car.
The 29-year-old Yakima man reported early Friday that he suffered a gunshot wound to the upper inside right thigh, according to a news release from the Yakima Police Department.
The man said he was walking about 2:40 a.m. toward the 7-Eleven store at 16th and Summitview avenues when someone in a passing vehicle shot him.
Based on evidence at the scene, police said, investigators questioned the man's account of the incident.
The man's pants did not have a bullet hole, but his boxers did, according to the news release. That led police to determine that the man was wounded when the gun discharged while in his waistband.
No charges are being sought against the man, who claimed to be affiliated with a gang, authorities said.
In April 2008, a 20-year-old man claimed that he had been shot in the groin during a drive-by shooting. Police determined that he shot himself with two loads of buckshot after placing the barrel down his pants.
That man was seriously wounded.
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