San Diego police are looking for a man who they said used a shotgun to shoot a man in the leg who was involved in an argument in a Serra Mesa backyard early Thursday.
The shooting was reported shortly after 3:05 a.m. at a home on Afton Road.
Police said the victim was in a verbal altercation with another man behind the rear of the home when a third man “armed himself with a shotgun” and fired one round. The blast hit the victim in the left shin, breaking two bones in the victim’s leg, police said.
Officers found the injured man in the backyard and provided first aid until paramedics arrived and transported him to a hospital to be treated.
The shooter, believed to be an acquaintance of the victim, took off before police arrived. The man, who was wearing a black trench coat and had long black hair, was described as Native American, in his 30s, about 5 feet 6 inches tall, with a heavy build.
The shotgun was recovered. Police searched the area, but the suspect was not immediately located. Detectives are investigating.