A 13-year-old girl was left in critical condition after being shot by her own mother.
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32-year-old Talecka Brown, has been arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder and counts of assault and use of a firearm, according to online court records. She was in the custody of the county’s Department of Corrections on Tuesday, according to Seat Pleasant Police.
Talecka told officers that her daughter was shot in the neck by a homeless person on her way home from school.
The girl later told police at the hospital that she and her mother got into an argument when she came home from school that turned physical. After the fight, the girl started to walk down the stairs at the home, when she heard a gunshot and fell to the bottom of the stairs and was unable to move, charging documents say.
According to legal documents there was a smell of a discharged weapon in the home and Brown told officials that there was an unregistered weapon in a safe that didn’t belong to her. After conflicting statements and questioning, Brown was arrested and charged with first-degree attempted murder and more while her daughter sits in critical condition in a hospital.
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Brown is in jail awaiting a bond review hearing set for Wednesday.
