UPDATE 9/4/18 @ 4 p.m.

A domestic situation between a father and son ended with the son wounded with a shotgun blast and the father taken to jail, according to the Lawrence County Sheriff's Department.

Deputies say it happened at a home along State Route 141 in the Wilgus area a little before 7 a.m. Monday.

They say Stephen Wilson was hit in the upper torso with shotgun pellets and flown to a hospital in Huntington. They say his father, 64-year-old Jackie Wilson, pulled the trigger.

Deputies say the pair had been in an argument, and the father locked himself in a bedroom. They say the father fired through the locked door.

Neighbors spoke out Monday afternoon strongly in defense of the father, believing he wouldn't shoot his own child unless it was self defense.

"Jackie wouldn't harm a fly unless he had to," neighbor Mike Callicoat said.

Callicoat says the father had gotten a restraining order against his son, but the son continued to live with him. Callicoat says the father had told him that his son had beaten and robbed him.

"He can't even sleep at night because he's scared to lay down and go to sleep," Callicoat said. "He was threatened by him. He was scared of him."

Neighbors say the father has a good reputation, but the son does not.

"I've never seen anything bad out of the man in any way, but his boy, that's a different story," neighbor Tim Murdock said.

The father was taken to the Lawrence County Jail.

Jackie Wilson is charged with felonious assault. He was arraigned Tuesday morning. His preliminary hearing is set for 10 a.m. Sept. 10.

ORIGINAL STORY

A domestic situation between a father and his son ended up with the son wounded with a shotgun blast, the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office says.

It happened around 6:50 a.m. Monday along state Route 141 in Willow Wood.

Stephen Wilson, 36, was hit in the upper torso with shotgun pellets, deputies say. He was flown by helicopter to Cabell Huntington Hospital.

His father, Jackie Wilson, 64, was arrested and charged with felonious assault.

Deputies say the pair had been in an argument, and the father went into a bedroom and locked the door. The suspect allegedly fired through the locked door.

Jackie Wilson is set to be arraigned at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Lawrence County Municipal Court.

He is in custody in the Lawrence County Jail.