PITTSBURG — A lengthy argument between father and son ended with the son in the hospital with a gunshot wound and the father in police custody for assault with a deadly weapon.

According to police, a father and son had been arguing all morning at a home on the 2200 block of Rome Ct. Police were called out to the residence at 12:03 p.m. after the father allegedly shot the son in the back of the leg. The injury was considered nonlife-threatening and the son was brought by ambulance to a hospital.

The father was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

Police continue to invest the circumstances that led up to the shooting, including at what point the son came into possession of a steel pipe.