A person was shot at his Cleveland dwelling Saturday throughout a dispute over a $10 yard work debt, police say. Cleveland.com reported:

A Cleveland man who didn’t pay $10 for yard work was shot Saturday after two males tried to gather on the debt, police say.

The 38-year-old sufferer suffered a gunshot wound to his hip and a doable leg fracture within the taking pictures that occurred at his dwelling on East 71st Avenue close to Harvard Avenue within the South Broadway neighborhood.

The person informed police that he agreed to pay $20 to 2 males who reduce his grass on Thursday. He solely had $10 on the time, so he informed the pair to return on Saturday for the remainder of their cost, based on a Cleveland police report.

The duo returned to the home round 5:30 p.m. Saturday with a 3rd man. They pounded and pulled on the person’s display screen door till he got here downstairs and located the door broken, the report says.

He informed the boys he would now not pay them as a result of he’d need to spend cash to repair the door, the report says.

The third man informed the pair to tug out their gun, the report says. One of many yard employees flashed a semi-automatic pistol and fired a single spherical because the sufferer tried to shut his door, the report says.

The bullet went by way of the door and hit him within the hip. Paramedics discovered him injured on a staircase and took him to MetroHealth for remedy, the report says.