A Riviera Beach man is accused of shooting his daughter’s ex-boyfriend in May because he broke the man’s car windows, said the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies arrested Kenneth Murph, 50, Thursday on charges of attempted first-degree murder and armed robbery, according to a probable-cause affidavit. During a brief court hearing at the Palm Beach County Jail on Friday, his mother, Betty Murph, pleaded with Judge Dina Keever-Agrama that her son was innocent.

"He didn’t do this, judge," she said.

Keever-Agrama said she denied bond because of the seriousness of the charges. Among a group of about 10 in support of Murph, a woman started crying and a man began yelling that denying bond wasn’t fair. A deputy escorted the family out of the jail.

Betty Murph told The Palm Beach Post that she knows it wasn’t her son. She denied to comment further.

When deputies found the shooting victim on May 27, he was lying on a driveway of Gardenette Road in suburban West Palm Beach with a single gunshot wound to the back of his left shoulder, the affidavit said. The man told deputies "I know who did this."

He was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center in critical condition with a "projectile" in his neck, the affidavit said. He was paralyzed, and doctors said he needed surgery. He was not a patient in the hospital on Friday, said St. Mary’s spokesman Ryan Lieber.

The victim’s mother told deputies her son had a fight with Murph, his ex-girlfriend’s father, because he broke Murph’s car windows, the affidavit said. Murph texted the man’s mother and uncle the day before the shooting saying the man was going to pay for the damages.

"I’m pissed. I can’t even imagine what to do with him," the text to the mother read, according to the affidavit.

Among the text, Murph told the uncle that the man crossed the line when he broke the windows. He also said he’d been fair to the man and lets him live in his home, the affidavit said. The messages said the man wouldn’t be safe anywhere, not even in jail.

During an interview with deputies, Murph said he made a complaint with police about the broken windows. He said the man called him and said "he was a grown man and to stop calling his mother."

Murph told the man where he was, and when the man showed up, the two fought for about 10 minutes, the affidavit said. Murph had a split lip and bite mark from the fight. He confessed to sending the text messages to the man’s family members but denied shooting him.

The victim told deputies through a speaking device because of his injuries that he was walking eastbound on Gardenette Road toward South Military Trail when two men walked up to him dressed in black with facial coverings, the affidavit said. One of the men said, "Do you still love her, I gotcha now," which he recognized as Murph’s voice. He also said he noticed the man was wearing brown work boots, similar to ones he saw Murph wear when the two lived together.

He tried to run away but said he was hit by Murph and the other man, then shot in the back. He said he didn’t know which man shot him, the affidavit said.