CORNELIA - Playing with a gun sent one man to the hospital and landed a Cornelia man in jail.
Cornelia police Tuesday morning released details of the incident that occurred at 5 p.m. Thursday at Crown Point Apartments on Baldwin Road.
When officers arrived, they found that 21-year-old Arron Pope had been shot in the cheek with a 9-mm handgun.
Pope was taken by ambulance to Northeast Georgia Medical Center for treatment of facial injuries.
Witnesses Charles Riley, 19, of Cornelia, and A.J. Gordy, 22, told officers they had been playing with the pistol they thought was unloaded.
Riley was arrested and charged with reckless conduct. He was booked in at the Habersham County Detention Center.
