Convicted felon is sentenced for possessing gun he shot himself with in Kansas City

Justin Brooks Finch staggered into a midtown Kansas City gas station last year reeking of PCP and bleeding from a bullet wound to his hand.

When police arrived and asked who had done it, Finch said he had done it himself.

But he couldn’t tell them where the gun was. He admitted he was high on the powerful hallucinogenic and had blacked out.

“Man, I’m a convicted felon and I shouldn’t have had a gun,” he admitted. “I don’t know where I was when I shot myself.”

That was no problem for police. All they had to do was follow a trail of blood drops that traced Finch’s path to the gas station.

The trail ended a block away, and there a police dog found the 9 mm handgun in a driveway.

Finch, 31, was arrested and charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

On Thursday, a federal judge in Kansas City sentenced him to seven years and three months in prison without parole.

This story was originally published June 4, 2015 at 5:06 PM with the headline "Convicted felon is sentenced for possessing gun he shot himself with in Kansas City."