TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) - A woman has been arrested after her grandmother was shot and killed.
AL.com reports (https://bit.ly/2q1xDEp) that 22-year-old Stephanie Pierson is awaiting formal murder charges in connection with the Saturday death of 58-year-old Ruth Pearl Pierson.
Macon County Sheriff Andre Brunson says the family was outside their home and preparing to go to the funeral for the mother of Ruth Pearl Pierson’s live-in boyfriend when the shooting happened. Brunson says investigators don’t yet know what led to the shooting. Arriving deputies found the grandmother dead on the ground outside a car.
Brunson says the victim’s boyfriend witnessed the entire incident.
It’s unclear if Stephanie Pierson has a lawyer.
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