SPOUT SPRINGS — A Harnett County woman shot her estranged husband on Sunday morning, the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office reported, after he broke into her home and attacked her and a child.

The husband was in serious condition at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville following the shooting, the agency said.

The incident was reported around 2:30 a.m. Sunday in a home on the 100 block of Ramona Collins Court, a news release says. This is in the Spout Springs area of western Harnett County.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, 60-year-old Jeffrey Hooks, 60, is accused of forcing his way into the home of his wife, Jeana Crawford, and of assaulting her and a girl. He allegedly had a handgun.

Crawford told investigators she shot him, the news release says.

Crawford was not charged.

Hooks is charged with breaking-and-entering to terrorize, two counts of assault-on-a-female, and a count of assault by pointing a gun.

The shooting remains under investigation, the news release says.

— Paul Woolverton