A man who reportedly stole a car from a Longmont Circle K and was shot by the vehicle’s owner in June entered a not-guilty plea on Friday.

Michael Joseph Ramos, 36, was initially arrested on suspicion of aggravated motor vehicle theft and failure to provide information after accident involving injury, serious injury or death. However, his charges were later downgraded to third-degree motor vehicle theft, according to court records.

He is set for a jury trial on Sept. 2 and is being held in custody on a $10,000 bond.

Ramos was shot around 2 a.m. June 4 at the Circle K gas station at 1850 Main St. before he was arrested and taken into custody. The owner of the vehicle who reportedly shot at Ramos has not been charged in the incident, according to Longmont Public Safety spokesman Rogelio Mares.

According to an affidavit, the car’s owner saw people in a nearby parking lot and decided to take his firearm inside the store, fearing that it would be stolen. Soon after he entered the store, the car owner observed a man, later identified as Ramos, near the hood of his car. The man told police that on his way back to his car, he saw Ramos raise the left side of his shirt and observed a black grip in Ramos’s waistband.

The car owner then drew his firearm, “racked his slide to put a round in the chamber and approached (Ramos) as he entered the vehicle,” according to the affidavit. The man told officers that Ramos closed the car door and pointed something toward him.

The car owner told police that he fired one round through the driver’s side door window while pointing in a downward direction. After he fired, he said he saw the vehicle accelerate eastbound through the parking lot, where it drove over a raised curb.

The car then continued eastbound, striking another raised curb, then drove through rocks, striking another object. The vehicle turned northbound, coming back into the parking lot of 1834 Main St., before it turned eastbound on 19th Avenue, according to the affidavit.

According to the affidavit, police found the car and saw a large amount of blood, airbag deployment, extensive front-end damage and a hole in the front driver’s side window, which was believed to be from a bullet.

Officers found Ramos around 3:39 a.m. with a gunshot wound to his left forearm with no apparent exit wound.

In an interview with police at the hospital, Ramos stated that he took two hits of meth, saw a vehicle pull up and decided then he was going to steal it. He also told officers that he was in prison for eight years for auto theft and that he was a registered sex offender.