Alto Man charged after Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound

The Habersham County Sheriff’s Office has charged an Alto man with reckless conduct after he was injured by a self-inflicted gunshot Wednesday night in the parking lot of Habersham Hills Cinema.  Habersham County E-9-1-1 received a call reporting the man, later identified as 39-year-old Michael Andrew Stembridge of Alto, was sitting in a red Dodge van alone throwing things and screaming call 9-1-1.  Stembridge told a 9-1-1 caller he had been shot and needed an ambulance.  Units from the sheriff’s office arrived to find Stembridge suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his left thigh/femur area.  A tourniquet was applied and Stembridge was transported by Habersham County Emergency Services Med 9 to Northeast Georgia Medical Center.  He was later released and arrested by Habersham County sheriff’s deputies, charged with one count of reckless conduct.  He remained in the Habersham County Detention Center Thursday morning.