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Inset: Alanna Bilbo (Cherokee County Sheriff”s Office). Background: The county road where Bilbo and her boyfriend live in Alto, Texas (Google Maps).
A woman from Texas has been taken into custody after allegedly shooting her live-in boyfriend directly between the eyes, according to reports from local law enforcement in the state.
Alanna Dawn Bilbo, 33, faces charges of aggravated assault resulting in serious bodily harm to someone she is romantically involved with, as revealed in court documents reviewed by Law&Crime.
The incident unfolded on Monday evening at a home located on County Road 2813 in Alto, a small town nestled in the Piney Woods region, approximately 26 miles west of Nacogdoches.
Deputies from the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene around 7 p.m. after receiving reports of a shooting, as detailed in a probable cause affidavit.
Once inside the residence, detectives interviewed Bilbo, who had been informed of her rights. She told authorities that a “verbal argument” had erupted between her and her “live-in boyfriend” over issues concerning their relationship.
Then, at some point, the argument devolved into taunting and all-but-immediate violence, according to the charging document.
“Alanna was standing in the doorway of their residence and [the boyfriend] was standing outside in front of the stairway yelling at her to shoot him, and she shot him between the eyes with a .22 caliber revolver,” the probable cause statement reads.
After being shot between the eyes, the man is said to have turned to his left while holding his face with his hands as Bilbo allegedly “shot him again in the back of the neck,” according to the sheriff’s office.
On Tuesday, Cherokee County Sheriff Brent Dickson said the shooting was at first reported as an accident, in comments reported by Jacksonville, Texas-based NBC affiliate KETK.
After the incident, the victim was flown to a hospital in Tyler, where he was in stable condition as of Tuesday, according to the sheriff.
The defendant and her boyfriend were both allegedly using drugs at the time of the shooting, Dickson told KETK.
Bilbo is currently detained in the Cherokee County Jail on $150,000 bond. A magistrate judge issued a protective order that bars the defendant from contacting her boyfriend for the next three months and prohibits her from possessing a firearm, records show.