UPDATE @ 10:30 p.m.
A man called 911 this morning and admitted he just shot his wife.
Thomas Shockey, 70, is being held on $1 million bond on suspicion of attempted murder and two counts of felonious assault.
“You shot her?” the dispatcher said. “Yeah, in the stomach,” Shockey replied. After telling the dispatcher the gun was in the kitchen and that his wife ran to a neighbor’s house, he asked for an ambulance to come for her. However, he wouldn’t stay on the line. “I’ve got to call my son. Goodbye,” he said.
“I just tried to kill my wife. I shot her and she ran out the front door,” Shockey told an emergency dispatcher.
UPDATE @ 6:05 p.m.
A 70-year-old Germantown man is accused of shooting his wife in the stomach and hitting her in the head at their home Sunday morning.
Thomas A. Shockey was arrested near his home in the first block of Lindell Drive following the shooting reported around 6:10 a.m. He is behind held in lieu of $1 million bond on suspicion of attempted murder and two counts of felonious assault in the Montgomery County Jail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday morning, online jail records show.
His wife ran to a neighbor’s house for help and later was taken to Kettering Medical Center, where her condition was not known. The incident remains under investigation.
FIRST REPORT (Sept. 4)
Police in Germantown have located a man who reportedly shot his wife in the stomach this morning.
Crews were dispatched around 6:10 a.m. on a report of a shooting in the first block of Lindell Drive.
Initial reports indicate the man shot his wife and hit her in the head before she ran to a neighboring home.
We have a reporter heading to the scene to learn more.
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