ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say a 13-year-old boy was trying to stop his father from strangling his mother when he shot both parents in a St. Louis home.
Television station KMOV reports that the shooting happened around 10 a.m. Wednesday in St. Louis’ Academy neighborhood.
St. Louis Metropolitan Police called to the home found a 50-year-old man and a 47-year-old woman with gunshot wounds.
The woman told officers her husband started choking her during an argument, leading her son to fire several shots at his father and inadvertently also shooting her.
The man was taken to a hospital in critical condition and the woman was hospitalized in stable condition.
The boy was arrested and his case sent to juvenile court.
