Man shot and arrested on city's West Side Tuesday

Corpus Christi Police were called out to a home in the 1200 block of Mendoza Street in the city's West Side on Tuesday at 3:42 p.m., according to a police report.

When officers arrived they found a 51-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his leg. Medics took the man to a Shoreline Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

During the investigation, the man, identified as Jose Villarreal, was found to have assaulted his 32-year-old girlfriend. The girlfriend got a handgun and shot Villarreal in an effort to protect herself from further harm.

The female was also taken to the hospital by medics with serious injuries.

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Once Villarreal was medically cleared from the hospital, he was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon - family violence and was taken to the City Detention Center for booking.

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