PRATT – Law enforcement authorities in Pratt County are investigating a suspect for criminal threat and assault after he was shot by an apartment manager.

Joshua Benjamin Hamic, 31, threatened the manager of the apartment complex in Pratt and was escorted from the property, according to Pratt Police Sergeant Ed Gimpel.

“Hamic did not live there and during the dispute noticed the manager had a firearm on his hip,” said Gimpel. “He attacked the manager and the manager shot him.”

Pratt County EMS transported Hamic to a hospital in Sedgwick County for treatment of a minor gunshot wound from the small caliber handgun, according to Gimpel.

Hamic is now being held in the Pratt County jail on $50,000 bond for domestic battery, reckless bodily harm to a family member, criminal threat, assault, and criminal damage to property.