A Wiscasset man and his girlfriend have given differing accounts of how she wound up with a gunshot wound December 7, according to a police affidavit.

Sean Kingston, 38, was still at Kennebec County Correctional Facility in Augusta on December 17, in lieu of $2,500 bail, jail staff said. Maeghan Maloney, district attorney for Kennebec and Somerset counties, confirmed in an email December 17 that possession of a firearm by a felon remained the lone charge against Kingston.

Gardiner Police Detective Michael Durham's December 9 affidavit states that Kingston said he and his girlfriend Shawna Snyder were sitting on a bed in her Costello Road, Gardiner, home when she received the gunshot wound.

According to the affidavit on file in Kennebec County Superior Court, Kingston said there was a handgun at Snyder's home as protection; a neighbor of hers had been making threats, Kingston told Durham.

“Sean claimed ... the firearm was between the mattresses. He said that Shawna was touching the firearm with her foot, so he reached down, picked up the firearm and was moving it to the headboard ... when it went off for an unknown reason. He denied pulling the trigger and claimed this incident was entirely accidental,” Durham writes.

“Sean told me that the firearm would never be found ... (H)e would not tell me where he put it ...,” the detective continues.

Snyder told another officer that she and Kingston were in a field when they found a gun, it went off and she went back indoors, the affidavit states. She later said they had first brought the gun inside, where it went off while they were looking at it, the document continues.

It states that Snyder's 15-year-old son said he heard the shot, then heard his mother say four times, “It went through me.”

According to the document, the boy said he knocked on his mother's bedroom door. “Sean opened the door and told him it was just a firecracker, and Sean then slammed the door shut,” Durham writes about the boy's account.

Kingston's next court appearance is set for 10 a.m. February 11, 2014, in Kennebec County Superior Court.

His girlfriend was expected to recover from her injury, police have said.