A woman is in police custody after police said she shot her husband and 7-year-old son Saturday night. Baltimore County police said the woman, identified as Erica Nicole Shifflett, 30, was taken into custody. Police said she arrived at about 7 p.m. at a house in the 7300 block of School Avenue in Dundalk to take the couple's son and got into a fight with her husband over custody of the boy.

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A woman is in police custody after police said she shot her husband and 7-year-old son Saturday night.Download the WBAL app.Baltimore County police said the woman, identified as Erica Nicole Shifflett, 30, was taken into custody. Police said she arrived at about 7 p.m. at a house in the 7300 block of School Avenue in Dundalk to take the couple's son and got into a fight with her husband over custody of the boy."A woman was trying to take her 7-year-old son from the location when she became involved in an argument with her husband, (who) went to take their son back inside, and she pulled out a gun and fired, injuring both her husband and her son," Baltimore County police Cpl. John Wachter said.According to charging documents, the gunfire struck Shifflett's husband in the arm and her son in the hand and waist.Police said family members took Shifflett to the ground and held her until officers arrived. Both victims were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.Shifflett has been charged with attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault and related charges. She is being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center, police said."This is not the way to solve anything. Guns don't solve anything, they just make things worse. Instead of choosing to talk about it, resolve it or maybe go get an attorney and resolve it in court, she chose to pull out a gun and endanger not only her son, but her son's father," Wachter said.The charging documents cite a police interview, saying: "Erica Nicole Shifflett stated that she did not intend to shoot anyone, which was not consistent with the witnesses' accounts of the event."On Monday, Shifflett was under police guard at a hospital.WBAL-TV 11 News reporter Kim Dacey contributed to this report