A homeless man accused of shooting his father in the backside is being held in Allen County Jail on preliminary charges of aggravated battery and criminal recklessness.

Fort Wayne police officers arrested 23-year-old Mark Anthony Shepherd after his father identified him as the man who shot him through his bedroom window before running off into the darkness of the early-morning hours Monday.

Officers were called to the father’s home at 3:43 a.m. that day and found he had been shot in the right buttocks area. The wound was "through and through," according to an Allen Superior Court probable cause affidavit.

A window in the father’s home had been broken by bullet holes and there was another bullet lodged in the pillow of his bed, the affidavit said.

Shepherd’s father later told detectives his son is suffering from a mental illness and the two are feuding.

The morning of the shooting, Shepherd’s father was lying in bed with his girlfriend when the shots rang out.

He told detectives he saw his son shooting at him. Shepherd is being held on $35,000 bond.

jeffwiehe@jg.net