ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - A teenage boy was taken into custody after he shot both his mother and father while they were fighting inside a St. Louis home.
Police say the 13-year-old shot both adults after they got into an argument and the man was choking the woman. Police confirmed to KSDK that the couple was the boy's mother and father. The 47-year-old woman was shot in her torso and the 50-year-old man was shot in his legs/buttocks, according to police.
A gun was recovered at the scene and the teen was taken into custody, then remanded to the Juvenile Courts, police say.
The shooting happened around 1:10 a.m. Wednesday in the 5100 block of Page Boulevard in St. Louis.
Both parents were transported to the hospital. The father was listed in critical/stable condition and the mother was in stable condition, police says.
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