UPDATE: Man admits to shooting woman near Lexington hotel

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – Police say a man has admitted to shooting a woman near a Lexington hotel, but he has a reason.

An arrest citation says 25-year-old Ira Lane told officers the woman he claims he shot, attacked him with a syringe.

That was early Saturday morning near the Quality Inn on Newtown Court.

The woman, Lane says he shot, was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.