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An 84-year-old Mart man was arrested this week, accused of threatening his wife and daughter with a gun and hitting them both, an arrest affidavit states.

Mart police arrested Charles Thomas Rogers on Tuesday night at a home in the 200 block of North Emerson Street. Rogers was arrested on two first-degree felony charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and remained in custody Friday.

Police responded to Rogers' home shortly before 9 p.m., after receiving a call about a a shot heard coming from the home.

"During initial contact, Charles stated that he had fired the gun by placing it on top of his wife's head and firing the weapon," the affidavit states.

Family members reported Rogers and his wife were arguing when he grabbed his wife's hair and placed a gun to her forehead, the affidavit states. Rogers hit his wife, 73, in the head with the gun, and his daughter tried to intervene, police reported.