Boy, 17, and pregnant 16-year-old girlfriend arrested for 'shooting his mother

[Peikko 1,575]

A pregnant 16-year-old girl and her 17-year-old boyfriend have been arrested after police discovered a woman lying, bleeding from a gunshot wound to the head, in front of her North Carolina home.

Daniel Rhoney and Elizabeth Paige Fowler have been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Rhoney's mother, Sherri Rhoney, and are being held at the Catawba County Sheriff's Office.

Just hours earlier, Fowler spoke to reporters about arriving home to find the injured woman bleeding in the yard.

Sherri Rhoney was found beaten and covered in blood in her front yard by off-duty deputies on Wednesday morning and was airlifted to Carolinas Medical Center with serious injuries.

The Hickory Record reports that Fowler told investigators that she and her boyfriend Daniel Rhoney had pulled into the driveway and found Sherri Rhoney covered in blood and unresponsive.

'It scared me to death and we got out and tried to help her and I didn't know what to do,' a crying Fowler told reporters on Eyewitness News.

According to the Charlotte Observer, Daniel Rhoney and Elizabeth Fowler were inside Sherri Rhoney's Old Shelby Road house at the time of the discovery.

She's a very helpful woman. I'm seven months pregnant and she has done everything for me and my child. I can't believe somebody would hurt her,' Fowler said on camera.

Sheriff Coy Reid said investigators had determined that Daniel Rhoney shot his mother in the head following an argument, and that Fowler had participated in beating the woman before she was shot.

'They lied to you,' Reid told Eyewitness News later. 'No doubt in my mind about that.'

According to Reid, Sherri Rhoney was conscious in hospital briefly and was able to tell him what happened.

Sherri Rhoney told the sheriff that an argument broke out after she told her son that he and his pregnant girlfriend would have to move out of her home.

According to WBTV, Sherri Rhoney was left lying in the grass bleeding for several hours before the police officers happened to drive by and saw the critically injured woman.

Daniel Rhoney and Elizabeth Fowler will be tried as adults. They are scheduled to appear in court for the first time tomorrow.

Police are currently searching to home for the weapon used in the shooting.

Sherri Rhoney is in a critical condition in hospital and has undergone several surgeries.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2418872/Pregnant-girl-16-17-year-old-boyfriend-shot-mother-left-bleeding-home-hours.html#ixzz2ejA7c949

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[The Nature Boy 4,224]

A pregnant 16-year-old girl and her 17-year-old boyfriend have been arrested after police discovered a woman lying, bleeding from a gunshot wound to the head, in front of her North Carolina home.

Daniel Rhoney and Elizabeth Paige Fowler have been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Rhoney's mother, Sherri Rhoney, and are being held at the Catawba County Sheriff's Office.

Just hours earlier, Fowler spoke to reporters about arriving home to find the injured woman bleeding in the yard.

Sherri Rhoney was found beaten and covered in blood in her front yard by off-duty deputies on Wednesday morning and was airlifted to Carolinas Medical Center with serious injuries.

The Hickory Record reports that Fowler told investigators that she and her boyfriend Daniel Rhoney had pulled into the driveway and found Sherri Rhoney covered in blood and unresponsive.

'It scared me to death and we got out and tried to help her and I didn't know what to do,' a crying Fowler told reporters on Eyewitness News.

According to the Charlotte Observer, Daniel Rhoney and Elizabeth Fowler were inside Sherri Rhoney's Old Shelby Road house at the time of the discovery.

She's a very helpful woman. I'm seven months pregnant and she has done everything for me and my child. I can't believe somebody would hurt her,' Fowler said on camera.

Sheriff Coy Reid said investigators had determined that Daniel Rhoney shot his mother in the head following an argument, and that Fowler had participated in beating the woman before she was shot.

'They lied to you,' Reid told Eyewitness News later. 'No doubt in my mind about that.'

According to Reid, Sherri Rhoney was conscious in hospital briefly and was able to tell him what happened.

Sherri Rhoney told the sheriff that an argument broke out after she told her son that he and his pregnant girlfriend would have to move out of her home.

According to WBTV, Sherri Rhoney was left lying in the grass bleeding for several hours before the police officers happened to drive by and saw the critically injured woman.

Daniel Rhoney and Elizabeth Fowler will be tried as adults. They are scheduled to appear in court for the first time tomorrow.

Police are currently searching to home for the weapon used in the shooting.

Sherri Rhoney is in a critical condition in hospital and has undergone several surgeries.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2418872/Pregnant-girl-16-17-year-old-boyfriend-shot-mother-left-bleeding-home-hours.html#ixzz2ejA7c949

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They should have used birth control....17 years ago

[Darnell 8,478]

OK - so - Kill Mom, get the house. Sounds like a plan ! An ill-conceived plan, but still, a plan, nonetheless.

[RGinWA 816]

Outlaw the root of this problem...horny teenagers.

[Danno 1,228]

OK - so - Kill Mom, get the house. Sounds like a plan ! An ill-conceived plan, but still, a plan, nonetheless.

Always see a plan through... or you end up charged with Attempted murder.

Couple of twisted kids there, no doubt planing to take over moms place, live on the dole and smoke crack in between reality shows.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

[RGinWA 816]

They should have used birth control....17 years ago

Yes...and anyone that's pro-life and wants to ban all abortions should think about some of the lives they want forced upon this planet. Sometimes they don't turn out all that great.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Yes...and anyone that's pro-life and wants to ban all abortions should think about some of the lives they want forced upon this planet. Sometimes they don't turn out all that great.

No, no. They don't care about the child AFTER it's born. They just want control of it in the womb. All bets are off after.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Yes...and anyone that's pro-life and wants to ban all abortions should think about some of the lives they want forced upon this planet. Sometimes they don't turn out all that great.

I read somewhere that a guy correlated the rise in abortion with the drop in crime...Who knows

Reminder I am what others would call a social liberal

[Peikko 1,575]

Always see a plan through... or you end up charged with Attempted murder.

Couple of twisted kids there, no doubt planing to take over moms place, live on the dole and smoke crack in between reality shows.

17 year olds don't really do planning. I doubt they intended to do anything quite so complex.