ALABAMA – A store clerk is dead after he accidentally shot himself in the head while examining a gun earlier this week in Sylacauga, new graphic video shows.

On Monday, a firefighter stopped by the Hop In Convenience Store to make a purchase and found the store clerk lying in a pool of blood behind the counter.

Officers from the Sylacauga Police Department (SPD) responded at 12:45pm to a call of a subject injured and possibly dead at the store on N Broadway Avenue and 10th Street.

Upon arrival, officers found 21-year-old Pankaj Pankaj lying on the floor with a handgun lying next to his body.

During an investigation, store video was reviewed, and it was determined that Pankaj had accidentally shot himself in the head while looking at the firearm that was property of the store owner.

The owner kept the gun behind the counter for self-protection.

Pankaj’s death was ruled an accident by the coroner after he reviewed the video, too.