A Florida man was charged with several felonies after allegedly shooting his own sons during a fight over a family car.
Christopher Lee Brown, 36, was arrested on Sunday after police claimed he shot his three sons, all of whom are juveniles. According to court documents obtained by local Fox affiliate WTVT, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of a shooting around 11:15 a.m. on Sunday in Brown’s Ruskin neighborhood. Deputies arrived at the scene and discovered Brown’s three sons with gunshot wounds.
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All three boys were taken to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and survived. Their names and ages were not revealed.
According to the documents, detectives who investigated the shooting stated that the altercation began over a car. According to police, Brown confronted his sons about it, which escalated into the alleged shooting of all three boys.
According to WTVT, Brown allegedly hit one of the boys in the head with the gun, triggering the weapon and firing a bullet across the boy’s jawline and into his earlobe. Brown reportedly ran to his car while the other two boys chased him. According to the documents, Brown then allegedly opened fire on the other two boys.
Court documents also stated that one of the boys played investigators a recording of their father leaving after the alleged shooting, in which he said, “I tried to take your life” and “You won’t make it to Wednesday.”
According to WTVT, the state attorney’s office has filed a pretrial motion to keep Brown in custody pending trial.
Brown is now facing a lengthy list of felony charges—three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of attempted first-degree murder with a firearm, three counts of aggravated battery with great bodily harm or deadly weapon, being a felon in possession of a firearm, discharging a firearm in public or residential property, two counts of burglary of an occupied dwelling, resisting an officer without violence, and criminal mischief (more than $200, less than $1,000).