‘Boom, boom, boom’: 72-year-old woman shoots noisy son over video game racket, police say

A 72-year-old pistillate successful Arizona allegedly opened occurrence connected her big lad during a blow-up implicit video game noise, blasting him successful the tummy and sending him to the infirmary aft helium got excessively large portion playing, according to constabulary and prosecutors.

Hazel Benson, of Mesa, was arrested Saturday nighttime aft allegedly shooting her 38-year-old lad during a chaotic domestic confrontation astatine her location near Higley Road and Main Street, according to tribunal documents obtained by section NBC affiliate KPNX.

The Mesa Police Department says it responded to the shooting astatine astir 8:50 p.m. Saturday and recovered Benson’s lad with non-life-threatening injuries. The unfortunate was changeable erstwhile successful the stomach; Benson is facing aggravated battle charges, disorderly behaviour and discharge of a firearm wrong metropolis limits arsenic a result.

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Benson allegedly told investigators that she fired the weapon and past threw it into a canal afterward. She said the 2 had been fighting, with her lad going for a locomotion to “calm down” earlier returning to find Benson blocking the door.

Benson allegedly changeable her lad arsenic helium lunged toward her with “his hands successful fists,” according to KPNX. She allegedly told constabulary she was not definite whether she fired erstwhile oregon aggregate times, the presumption reports.

Authorities accidental officers were called to Benson’s location anterior to her son’s shooting for different work telephone earlier successful the night, during which Benson described being frustrated implicit the sound level, KPNX reports, citing Mesa Police.

Benson is facing aggravated battle charges, disorderly behaviour and discharge of a firearm wrong metropolis limits. Mesa is astir 20 miles southeast of Phoenix.

“Never immoderate incidents, ever before,” 1 of Benson’s neighbors told section Fox affiliate KSAX.

“I can’t ideate his parent shooting him,” said nonmigratory Chris Hammound.

“I heard 3 gunshots,” Hammound added. “Like, boom, boom, boom. It seemed similar it was 3 successful a row.”

Benson’s lad is expected to marque a afloat betterment aft being hospitalized.