Portland police arrested a woman in Southeast Portland after she allegedly fired at her sister’s partner and instead shot her 15-year-old son as he sat in the back seat of her car on Wednesday.
Domanete A. Guirma, 38, of Portland, faces charges of attempted murder, second-degree assault and reckless endangerment, according to court records.
The shooting happened around 3 a.m. on Southeast 130th Avenue and Sherman Street, where Guirma allegedly confronted her sister’s partner in front of his home. A 17-year-old son and the 15-year-old were with her, as was a friend of the older child, court records said.
Guirma allegedly told police that she brought a gun to scare her sister’s partner, and she was waving it around when she said it “just went off.”
Ring camera footage of the incident recorded Guirma’s 17-year-old son yelling at his mother that she’d just shot his brother.
The boy was seriously injured by what police and court records variously describe as “graze wounds” to the back of his head and undisclosed injuries to his neck, but police said they weren’t life-threatening.
Guirma’s 17-year-old son and his friend drove Guirma and the boy to Adventist Medical Center, court records said.
When officers initially questioned Guirma, she allegedly told them her son had been injured in a drive-by shooting, court records said.
After investigating the scene of the shooting, officers told Guirma about the Ring camera footage. She then acknowledged having a gun but said she didn’t mean to fire it, court documents said.
Court documents also said that police spoke with the man whom Guirma had confronted. He told them that she had fired the gun at him and missed, and that’s when the bullet went through the windshield of her car, striking her son.
Police took Guirma’s children into protective custody when they arrested her. Guirma has a criminal history that includes 2018 convictions for delivering cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine, plus 2012 and 2018 convictions for identity theft.
She is scheduled to appear in court on Friday.
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