An East Texas woman is in custody for allegedly shooting her boyfriend twice in the head during a disturbance, according to the Cherokee County sheriff.<\/p>\n
CHEROKEE COUNTY, Texas \u2014 An East Texas woman accused of shooting her boyfriend in the head Monday in Cherokee County is behind bars.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cherokee County Sheriff Brent Dickson said the shooting County Road 2813 near Alto around 7 p.m. Monday was initially reported as accidental. When deputies arrived, they learned the incident involved a disturbance between a boyfriend and girlfriend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Investigators say Alanna Bilbo, 33, of Quitman, pulled out a .22-caliber pistol and shot her boyfriend twice in the head. He was flown to a Tyler hospital, and he’s currently in stable condition, Dickson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The sheriff confirmed that narcotics were involved in the shooting. Bilbo is in the Cherokee County Jail for an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An East Texas woman is in custody for allegedly shooting her boyfriend twice in the head during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-299804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}