Mother charged for shooting son with BB gun as punishment

Detroit Lakes, Minn. (KDLM) – A northwestern Minnesota mom is facing charges for allegedly shooting her 9-year-old son with a BB gun twice as a form of punishment.

On Sept. 6 at 6:42 p.m., the Hubbard County Sheriff’s Office says it received a report that a child had been shot by his mother with a BB gun at a residence in Fern Township, about 20 miles southwest of Bemidji.

Investigators learned from the father and child that two brothers had been wrestling when one of the boys got a bloody nose. 

Their mother, identified as 31-year-old Rose Ewald-Conner of Becida, told the 9-year-old boy he could either let his brother punch him or she would shoot him with a BB gun.

Ewald-Conner allegedly shot her son in the leg as he attempted to run away. He then climbed onto the roof of their house to get away from her, but she followed and shot him again, this time in the forehead.

The 31-year-old mother admitted to shooting her child and turned the BB gun over to deputies.

Ewald-Conner has been charged with felony malicious punishment of a child and domestic assault.