Atlanta mother, 34, shot and wounded her 17-year-old son in an argument about a video game console
An Atlanta mother has been arrested after she shot and wounded her 17-year-old son in a row over a video game console.
Jaquana Butler, 34, was at her home in the the southwest of the city on Thursday evening when she and the teenager began arguing.
She brought out a gun, police said, and shot her son multiple times.
Officers were called to the house on Sparks Street – near the home made famous in Tyler Perry’s Madea film series – around 10:20pm.
The teenager was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital. His condition is not known.
Jaquana Butler, 34, was arrested on Thursday night by Atlanta police and charged with shooting her 17-year-old son in an argument over a video game console
Police were called to this house in southwest Atlanta at 10:20pm to reports of a shooting
Butler was arrested and has been charged with aggravated assault, reckless conduct, and cruelty to children.
She is well known to police, with a record dating back to 2010.
Butler has been charged over the years with reckless conduct; abandonment of a child; forgery; aggravated assault with a deadly weapon; aggravated battery; armed robbery; false report of a crime; and weapon possession.
In 2012 she was charged with child abuse.
In 2019, she was found guilty as a first offender of four counts of second-degree child cruelty, child cruelty by causing excessive physical or mental pain, and battery family violence in a 2016 incident, according to court records.
She was sentenced to six years on probation.
In April this year she was charged with simple battery.
