Canon City Inmate Shot

An inmate at Canon City's Four Mile Correctional Facility felt a sudden pain in his leg on Tuesday, as he was walking around the track during recreational time.

When he looked down he found that he had been shot, which doctors confirmed on Thursday after finally getting the fragments out of his knee.

The prison reports that none of the guards fired the shot, and it is not clear where it came from.

Currently the minimum security prison is on lock down as Colorado Department of Corrections officers, from other prisons, search the facility for a weapon.

Buildings outside the prison are also being searched.

In efforts to look at all possibilities, officials are considering that he may have been shot from the nearby hills, with a high powered rifle.