Mother shoots son in Germantown [video]

Police told NewsWorks content partner NBC10 that a 78-year-old woman shot her 45-year-old son in the abdomen just after 9 p.m. Friday.

The man, whose identity was not immediately available, may have fired a weapon at his mother after an argument in East Germantown.

He was taken from a home in the 5700 block of McMahon Street to Albert Einstein Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.

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