BAD FORM: Girlfriend Hospitalized After Man Fails to Identify Target

By John Falkenberg

SWANZEY, NH — A man is facing some serious charges after he shot and seriously injured his girlfriend in the middle of the night when he mistook her for an intruder, The Keene Sentinel reports.

When he woke up to suspicious noises, grabbed his defensive firearm, and when he saw a silhouette down the hallway, opened fire.

As The Keene Sentinel reports:

Matthew Brow, 26, faces two charges of first-degree assault for allegedly shooting Stephanie Teves, 27, on Feb. 23. Prosecutors allege Brow fired two shots from a handgun. One struck Teves in her right arm and the right side of her abdomen, while the other struck the left side of her abdomen, court documents state…

The shooting occurred in the early-morning hours of Feb. 23 at 25 Cedar Road, according to the affidavit written by Swanzey police Detective Mary Wilson… When Wilson interviewed Brow, the detective wrote, Brow said he and Teves had fallen asleep together around 10 p.m. Later that night, he said, he awoke when he heard footsteps, according to Wilson.

“Brow stated that he immediately grabbed his firearm, which he keeps by the side of the bed,” Wilson wrote, “and as he turned and looked …Read the Rest

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