WATCH: Reports indicate that former baseball slugger Jose Canseco may have shot a finger off while cleaning a gun inside his 4,000 square foot Las Vegas home. Joe Bartels reports.
LAS VEGAS – Former major league slugger Jose Canseco is recovering after shooting himself in the hand at his Las Vegas home.
Metro police Lt. Mark Reddon says officers responded to a call of an accidental shooting shortly after 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Reddon says the former Oakland Athletics outfielder told police he was cleaning his gun in the kitchen when it fired, shooting a finger on his left hand. He was taken to University Medical Center of Southern Nevada.
Canseco’s fiancée Leila Knight tweeted hours after the shooting to tell his followers that the former all-star was OK.
Canseco is a right-handed batter who hit 462 career home runs and was a six-time All-Star. He also played for Texas, Boston, Toronto, Tampa Bay, the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox during a career that spanned from 1985 to 2001.
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