79-year-old shoots grand-nephew in the foot over $20

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Mobile, Alabama — A 79-year-old woman faces second degree domestic assault charges after she shot her grand-nephew in the foot over $20.

Mobile Police Department spokesman Terence Perkins said that police responded to a call Sunday morning about a person being shot. When they arrived, the victim said that his great-aunt, Ira Peterson, shot him once in the foot after an argument in which she claimed that he had stolen $20.

Peterson and her nephew currently live together.

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