A Danbury man who accidentally shot himself in the leg, ditched the gun in the grassy area by the Police Station and went inside to get medical help, according to Danbury Police. 

27-year old Ross Avery Markey was charged Monday with unlawful discharge of a firearm, reckless endangerment, carrying a piston without a permit, interfering with an officer, illegally altering the marks on a firearm and possession of a controlled substance for the  October incident. 

Police told the Newstimes that Markey came into the police station with a gunshot wound near his knee, saying the injury happened while trying to adjust the gun in the driver's side door pocket.  He allegedly lied to police when asked where the gun was at that point.  He claimed to have given it to a friend, and then that he stashed it somewhere. 

The gun was found, cocked and loaded, on the grass near the main entrance the following day by an observant investigator.  The serial number had been filed off. 

When police searched the man's car, officers found cocaine.  Markey was released on bond, arraigned and ordered to appear back in court next Friday.