SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Police in southwestern Missouri say a man and woman have been hospitalized following a family domestic disturbance involving several people that ended with the man being shot by his wife.
The incident happened Thursday afternoon, when a 33-year-old man assaulted an 82-year-old woman inside a home in rural unincorporated Bois D’Arc about 15 miles northwest of Springfield, the Greene County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
The release said an investigation showed the man bludgeoned the older woman in the face and shot a rifle near her. The man’s wife and children fled outside during the assault, and the man followed them, threatening them with the rifle as they tried to get into a vehicle, investigators said. That’s when the wife shot the man in the chest with a handgun, officials said.
The woman and children escaped to a neighboring home until authorities arrived. Arriving deputies found the man lying on the ground with a gunshot wound and the 82-year-old woman inside with facial injuries. Both were taken to a nearby hospital in serious but stable condition.
The names of those involved were not released, and officials did not define the relationship between the man and older woman he’s accused of assaulting.
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