A man who was shot in the face on Valentine’s Day allegedly by a home owner who wanted him to leave says he was shot “for no reason.”

Donald Knapp testified Tuesday morning in Hamilton Municipal Court in a hearing for Pamela Dawson, who is charged with felonious assault.

The 51-year-old woman told the JournalNews earlier this month that Knapp was a renter in her home and he turned violent minutes before the shooting by “manhandling” her during a trip to a pharmacy.

Knapp, 43, spoke with difficulty during the short hearing due to damage to his nose and mouth from the single shot from the .38 caliber revolver.

“She shot me in the face for no reason,” Knapp said. His nose was scabbed over from the bullet hole. He said physicians put a metal plate in his head and sewed his tongue back together to repair the damage.

Knapp said there was an argument in the vehicle and Dawson “got really upset. She told me to get out of the car.”

He added Dawson grabbed his arm and pushed him, then he grabbed her arm to get the prescription back and “she (Dawson) rolled on the ground.”

Dawson drove home and Knapp said it took him about 30 minutes to walk back to the Campbell Avenue residence.

Knapp said Dawson told him to get out of the house, so he went to the basement to retrieve a pair of overalls and his girlfriend’s purse.

“She said I wasn’t moving fast enough,” Knapp said, adding he was more than willing to leave and would not have gone back into the house if he had known Dawson had a gun.

Dawson told the JournalNews she just meant to scare Knapp and she thought the first chamber of the gun was empty. She said she suffered injuries when Knapp locked her out of her vehicle, threw her to the ground and assaulted her.

“He came walking back into the house. I told him to leave,” Dawson said in an interview a day after the shooting. “I wasn’t going to have him in my house after he manhandled me. He started yelling ‘unlawful eviction.’ ”

Following the hearing, Judge Dan Gattermeyer bound the case over for grand jury consideration.

Defense attorney David Brewer said “there are witnesses that do not agree with his version of the events.”

Dawson faces two to eight years in prison if convicted of the charge against her. She is free on bond.