By Jennifer Edwards
Enquirer staff writer

CLIFTON—An off-duty Hamilton County corrections officer was arrested early today and charged with improperly firing his weapon while intoxicated, lying to police about happened and other charges after accidentally shooting himself and a woman.

Shawn J. Weyer, 24, who just completed the sheriff's training academy for correction officers on Tuesday, accidentally shot himself in the left hand about 2:30 a.m. in an apartment in the 600 block of Riddle Road.

He is jailed today at the Hamilton County Justice Center.

The woman shot was taken to Mercy Hospital Fairfield with a gunshot wound to her lower right leg.

Her name, age and condition were not immediately available this morning but police said her injury was not life threatening.

A woman also was arrested early today in connection with the incident and charged with obstructing official business.

Emily Arner, 24, of Clifton, gave police false statements about the identities of people involved in the gun going off, hampering a police investigation, her arrest report shows. She has been released from the county jail.

Cincinnati police were called to Arner's Riddle Road apartment after receiving a report of an off-duty officer shot in the hand.

Weyer had left the apartment and was walking on Riddle Road when police arrived, according to his arrest report.

He admitted to police that he had drunk several beers earlier in the night. He said that he and two other people were in the apartment when he shot himself but no one else had been injured.

"He was less than candid when questioned about another injured person," said Steve Barnett, sheriff's spokesman.

Police later discovered a woman also had been shot inside the apartment, records show. When they found her at Mercy Hospital Fairfield, she told police Weyer had accidentally shot her as he put his gun away after showing it to her.

Weyer just began working for the sheriff's office on August 12 and, on Tuesday, completed six weeks of training at the sheriff's corrections academy, Barnett said.

Weyer's career with the agency appears short-lived.

"The sheriff said he will be terminated," Barnett said. "He will be terminated for conduct unbecoming, I would imagine."

Like all new employees, Weyer was on probation for one year with the sheriff's office.

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