Reports of gunshots and prowlers in an apartment complex just east of Fultondale led to the arrest of a Birmingham man early Wednesday.

Raphael Darnell Roman, 28, was arrested after Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies caught him following a brief chase at the Candy Mountain Apartments, located on Carson Road about a mile outside the Fultondale city limits.

Chief Deputy Randy Christian said that residents of the complex called around midnight about gunshots fired nearby, and when deputies arrived they found Roman near a building. When they asked Roman if he was armed, he fled into the woods, dropping a handgun. Roman was caught after a short chase, after which he told deputies he had been shot by a man in the woods.

While that was happening, another resident called to say that a prowler had been spotted elsewhere in the complex. Deputies found a 24-year-old Tarrant man who was bleeding from his head; the man said that Roman pulled a gun on him as they were driving back from a house in North Birmingham. The man said that Roman demanded money and heroin; when he told Roman that he didn’t have any, the man said Roman hit him with a pistol, forced him to take off his pants and stuffed the man into the car’s trunk.

The man told deputies that when he sensed that the car had stopped, he escaped from the trunk by using the emergency release, then started knocking on apartment doors to get help.

Roman has been charged with first-degree kidnapping, first-degree assault and attempting to elude. He was taken to a hospital for treatment of his leg wound, which Roman later admitted was caused when he accidentally shot himself.

Roman was later taken to the Jefferson County Jail, where he is held in lieu of $126,000 bond.