Sweetwater, Texas



From the Sweetwater Reporter of May 28, 2004

Domestic violence results in man hospitalized from gunshot wound



A local man remains hospitalized from a gunshot wound after a domestic argument took a turn for the worst.



At 10 p.m. Thursday Sweetwater Police Department received a 911-call concerning a residence on Hiawatha Street. When law enforcement arrived at the scene, they found one suspect shot and the other with signs of aggravated assault.



Officers at the scene said the couple were involved in an argument that became violent, which resulted in the gun fire. Allegedly the woman shot the man in self-defense after being physically assaulted. The weapon was a .22 caliber gun.



Police transferred the man to Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital where he remains in stable condition. Both suspects were placed in custody, but as of Friday's press time, neither had been booked into the Nolan County Jail. An investigation is pending.

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