Synopsis

At five-fifteen in the afternoon, Officer Matt Pugh responded to a call on the 600 block. He arrived to find a Black woman with a shotgun wound to her chest and a severed finger. She stated that her ex-boyfriend, Danny, was responsible, fleeing the scene with the sawed-off shotgun after a dispute on the porch over the weapon, which then discharged. A neighbor confirmed the woman owned the firearm. Officers re-entered the residence and questioned the woman's two children about the location of the