Man convicted of shooting himself in the groin

A man in Colorado has been convicted of shooting himself in the groin - despite insisting that he was actually trying to shoot a mugger.

David Leroy Blurton was convicted of illegal discharge of a firearm and an offence called 'prohibited use of a weapon — drunk with a gun' after investigators said that there was no evidence to back up his claims that he'd been attacked.

50-year-old Blurton claimed that someone had hit him on the back of the head, and that he was trying to defend himself, after he shot himself in the groin in a grocery store car park in Dillon, Colorado last year.

Prosecutors said that Blurton had been drinking at the time.

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