A mother was arrested after she shot her son in Hialeah Gardens on Sunday, according to police and a relative of the woman.
According to an arrest report for 63-year-old Grisel Perez, the shooting happened on Northwest 88th Avenue and Northwest 113th Street.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said they responded to a call about a medical emergency with reports of a possible shooting.
The victim, who is Perez’s son, was found suffering from a single gunshot wound to the abdomen and airlifted to the hospital.
When officers met with Perez, she told them that the victim had arrived at her residence earlier in the day, and she let him in, but he was “behaving strangely, as if he were under the influence of drugs.”
Later, she claimed that he took out a .38 revolver from his pocket while sitting on the living room couch and fired a round, “striking a glass led fireplace,” the arrest report states.
The two argued, and she told her son to leave her home before he “became enraged and began breaking furniture” while repeatedly taking the revolver in and out of his pocket.
Perez also said that he went into the backyard and fired a round into the ground.
Then, she went into her bedroom and got her own handgun. She said she confronted her son and told him to leave. At some point, Perez fired and then called 911.
She was arrested and charged with aggravated battery with a firearm.
Both weapons were found at the scene.
The officer who wrote the arrest report said that after Perez was arrested, he “reviewed footage from her cell phone of an interior camera, which was positioned on the rear glass sliding door directly facing the area where the incident took place. The video was collected and impounded as evidence, which corroborate her story.”
During the investigation, a woman at the scene told NBC6 that Perez is her cousin.
“I’m sure that [the victim] went crazy, you know, he’s always drugged out. And I don’t know, they’ve had a confrontation,” Elizabeth Brito said. “I’m feeling really sad. I just pray and hope that my cousin’s innocence comes out, that it was in self-defense, because she would never hurt her son like that, unless, you know.”