Mom, 65, charged with killing son in South Carolina shooting

Authorities say a 65-year-old woman shot and killed her son after the two argued in their Kingstree home.

Williamsburg County deputies said officers called to the house found Phyllis Owens holding a bloody cloth over a gunshot wound to her 30-year-old son’s upper right chest around 7 p.m. Saturday. Authorities say George Mixon III died on the way to the hospital.

An incident report says Owens initially told officers she accidentally shot her son with a 20-gauge shotgun. An arrest warrant says mother and son were having a heated argument before the shooting. What they were arguing about wasn’t disclosed.

Owens is charged with murder. Court documents didn’t show if she had a lawyer, and a person who answered a phone number listed on her booking sheet immediately hung up.