March 29, 2024

Man arrested after bullet fires through ceiling, hitting mom

WEST DES MOINES— A 21-year-old West Des Moines man has been arrested after a gun he was handling fired, sending a bullet through a basement ceiling that hit his sleeping mother. Paramedics were called to the home around 5 a.m. Friday and found a 43-year-old woman shot in her upper body. She was taken to a hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening. Police say her son told officers he had been holding the handgun in the home’s basement when it fired.