Detectives have concluded that Juan Gell, 21, of South Lexington Avenue accidentally shot himself in his midsection when he was standing with a group of people outside a car that had run out of gas. Gell subsequently concocted a story that he was shot during a robbery and provided county police with a description of a man he said had robbed him, police said.
The incident occurred about 5:45 a.m. on the northbound Saw Mill River Parkway near the westbound Cross County Parkway in Yonkers. Gell was taken to Gell was transferred later that day to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla. After being released on Wednesday, Gell was charged and released on $1,000 bail, police said.
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