BOARDMAN — As if a charge of burglary weren’t enough, a man was shot after allegedly kicking in his neighbor’s apartment door.

Police say Lawrence L. Simon, 58, of Shields Road, is charged with one count of burglary and is due in Mahoning County Boardman Court on Tuesday.

The police report states Simon was shot in the leg, and another bullet went through the floor into the apartment below. The man who fired the shots has not been charged, and police say he is a victim who apparently acted in self-defense.

Police arrived at the apartment building about 2 a.m. Tuesday to find Simon on the ground and the other man standing over him. Simon said he had been shot, and the man told police he had done it and told them where to find the gun. The man allowed police to detain him in handcuffs while they investigated.

The report states police applied a tourniquet to Simon’s left leg, where he sustained a gunshot wound to the shin.

The man told police Simon, who also lives in the building, had been texting him earlier, saying “weird” things. He told Simon repeatedly to leave him alone. A while later, he heard slamming noises and thought Simon had slammed the main building door and the laundry room door, which is next to the man’s apartment. Then Simon texted him “get ready” and the man heard another louder slamming noise, and got up out of bed to find Simon had kicked in his door, the report states.

Before Simon could walk too far into the apartment, the man shot him in fear that Simon would harm him.

The report states that Simon was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital for treatment while the man went to speak with police at the Boardman Police Department and other officers processed the scene. The man was eventually given a courtesy ride back home with no charges.

The report states that when police notified Simon he was being charged with burglary and handcuffed him to his hospital bed, he repeatedly ripped out IV lines and cables, took off his wound dressings and refused treatment. He told police he preferred to “bleed out” rather than be arrested, the report states.

Later that morning, police were called back to the building after a resident in the apartment below the man’s apartment notified them that there was a bullet hole in her bathroom wall.

Investigators followed a bullet hole from the upper shower wall through the shower curtain, through the bathroom wall and into a closet, where it had lodged in a plastic tote bag containing clothes. The bullet matched the others police had found in the magazine of the man’s 9mm handgun. Police again searched the man’s apartment and found where the bullet had entered the floor.