A man who was shot dur­ing an at­tempt­ed home in­va­sion in Carn­bee, To­ba­go, stunned po­lice by call­ing them for help—then con­fess­ing to the crime while be­ing treat­ed at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Po­lice say the man con­tact­ed them him­self and was tak­en to hos­pi­tal for treat­ment.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred around 3:20 a.m. on Sun­day at a home in Sher­wood Court, Sher­wood Park. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the home­own­er—a busi­ness­man and li­censed firearm hold­er—heard a noise out­side and saw a shad­owy fig­ure near his bed­room win­dow.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the home­own­er armed him­self and checked the south­ern en­trance of his house, where he saw the in­trud­er climb­ing over a bar­ri­er and mov­ing clos­er. The sus­pect had his face par­tial­ly cov­ered.

Fear­ing for his safe­ty and that of his fam­i­ly, the home­own­er fired a sin­gle round, caus­ing the in­trud­er to flee.

He then se­cured his prop­er­ty and re­port­ed the in­ci­dent to of­fi­cers at the Shir­van Road Po­lice Sta­tion.

Lat­er that day, of­fi­cers vis­it­ed the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where they found a man be­ing treat­ed for a gun­shot wound to the leg. Dur­ing an in­ter­view, he re­port­ed­ly ad­mit­ted to en­ter­ing the Sher­wood Court prop­er­ty and said he fled af­ter hear­ing a loud ex­plo­sion—on­ly re­al­is­ing he had been shot when he felt pain and saw blood.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.