The Red Oak Police Department reports a man suffered a gunshot wound while cleaning a rifle on Tuesday.

Officers were dispatched to 102 E. Elm Street in Red Oak for a male with a gun shot wound to the hip. It was determined that 30-year-old Kyle Lee Foster of Red Oak was cleaning an old .22 caliber rifle and didn’t check to see if it was loaded. The rifle discharged and struck him in the hip. He was transported to Montgomery County Memorial Hospital with a non-life threatening gunshot wound to the left hip.

No charges were filed in the incident. The Red Oak Police Department was assisted at the scene by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, Red Oak Rescue, and the Red Oak Fire Department.