FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. - Cañon City Police say a man made up a story about being shot by an intruder after an accidental shooting Monday afternoon.

Police received a report of a shooting in the 100 block of Blue Grouse Drive in the Dawson Ranch subdivision at 1:48 p.m. on February 9, 2015.

When officers arrived, the 18-year-old who called police said that a man wearing a mask came into his house through a basement window. The man said he was shot when he confronted the intruder.

Police sent an emergency notification call to neighbors to be on the lookout for an armed shooter on the loose.

Investigators determined that there was no intruder and that the shooting was accidental.

The man, whose name was not released, was taken to St. Thomas More Hospital to be treated for non-life threatening injuries.