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A Max Meadows man charged last year with being an accessory after the fact in a machete attack has now been accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend multiple times with a pellet pistol.

Nathan Andrew Wilson, 48, was arrested on Jan. 6 and charged with malicious wounding and assault and battery of a family member in a reported attack on Alta Arnold Alford.

Virginia State Police Trooper D.D. Dunford filed the charges after responding to a Sunday afternoon shooting call at 5246 Peppers Ferry Road.

According to the trooper and his criminal complaint, Dunford found Alford at a 166 Cleveland Avenue residence in Max Meadows.

“She advised me that she had went to the Peppers Ferry Road address to retrieve her belongings from the residence where her ex-boyfriend was staying,” Dunford wrote in a criminal complaint. “While she was getting her clothes she was shot multiple times in the leg by Mr. Andrew Nathan Wilson with an unknown handgun.”

On Wednesday, Dunford said the weapon was a pellet pistol and that Alford was hit an estimated 10-15 times in both legs and her buttocks while she was outside loading items into her car.

She was taken to Wythe County Community Hospital where she was treated and released, he said.