A Dallas County correctional officer is without a job after a Saturday incident in a local bar, resulting in three misdemeanor charges.

Dallas County Sheriff Harris Huffman said on Monday he dismissed a correctional officer at the Dallas County Jail after an incident, which resulted in gunfire about 2 a.m. Saturday.

Huffman said the correctional officer was in Bottoms Up, a bar on Ala. Hwy. 14, and an incident occurred inside the business. The correctional officer left the bar, went to the outside and pulled out his gun.

Selma City police officers answered a call because the bar is in the police jurisdiction. Once officers realized the suspect was a county correctional officer, police called the sheriff’s department, Huffman said.

A sheriff’s deputy arrived and talked to the correctional officer, who authorities said was intoxicated.

“The correctional officer pulled the pistol up like he was going to aim it at somebody and the deputy shot the pistol out of his hand with a shotgun,” Huffman said.

The correctional officer was taken by ambulance to Vaughan Regional Medical Center and later transported to Baptist Hospital in Montgomery.

Huffman said, as protocol dictates when an officer shoots someone, he called the Alabama Bureau of Investigation (ABI) to probe into the incident. The officer, who Huffman declined to identify, was placed on administrative leave until the ABI completes its investigation.

The correctional officer, who has served in the post for about seven months, was charged with disorderly conduct, reckless endangerment and carrying a pistol without a permit.

Huffman said the correctional officer’s pistol permit had expired.