TOPEKA (KSNT) – A man was taken to a Topeka hospital Monday morning following a shooting in East Topeka.

According to police, officers were called to the 400 block of SE Leland Avenue on the report of a shooting at 9:40 a.m. When they arrived they found a man with a gunshot wound. The man was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.

At 5:50 p.m., the TPD reported that the shooting was ruled as accidental and self-inflicted.