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Jun 23, 2009 3:36 pm US/Central
Police Seek Answers In Corinth Park Shooting
CORINTH (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
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The accused shooter, 50-year-old William Gilmore, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder.
Corinth Police Dept.
A park on Fairview Drive in Corinth turned into a crime scene early Monday afternoon. That's where police say a mother was shot and it happened while her two children looked on.
Police say a man walked up to
Kim Boggs and shot her. The case is unusual because the suspect didn't
steal anything; police say he simply fired the shot and walked away.
Corinth police say a man who fits the suspect's description turned himself in.
Police arrested 50-year-old William Gilmore and charged him with attempted murder.
Tuesday, police said they think the story is more complicated than it appears. "We think there's more to it," said Corinth Police Lt. Lance Stacy. "I don't think he just decided to shoot somebody. I think there is probably something deeper rooted in the suspect."
CBS 11 News talked to the Good Samaritan who may have saved the mother's life.
"I saw it was an adult and I opened the door and it was not what I expected," explained Corinth resident Amy Storey. That's because when Amy opened the door she came face to face with a woman covered in blood. "I could see if it was an accident. But you don't see people getting shot very often," she said.
Despite bleeding from a gunshot wound to her jaw, Kim Boggs of Corinth managed to lead Amy back to Fairview Park. That's where the 36-year-old had just been shot and where her two children remained.
"I just needed to calm the mother down," Amy said of Boggs. "We applied pressure to the wound. I picked up the baby girl to get her to stop crying and then I went to calm down the little one."
That child was Boggs' 4-year-old son; who was hiding in a plastic tunnel on the playground.
It wasn't long before Boggs' husband, Tracy, arrived at the park. "I just couldn't believe that happened to my wife. And then to see my baby girl covered in blood. It was very concerning," he said.
The little girl was covered in blood, but it wasn't hers, it was her mother's. But the child suffered a scare of her own. "When she [his wife] got shot, she dropped the baby on the cement. Thankfully, the baby is okay," Tracy Boggs said of his young daughter.
Both children were taken home after the incident. Kim Boggs is recovering at Parkland Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. She is listed in fair condition.
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