LINCOLNTON, N.C. — A Lincoln County woman is recovering in the hospital after being shot Thursday night.
According to a release from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, the shooting happened around 8:45 p.m. on Sunny Hill Drive. Responding officers found a woman lying in the front yard and she was shot in the stomach.
The woman, 46-year-old Cheryl Youvette Ussher, was taken to the Caromont Regional Medical Center in Gastonia.
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Several family members, including Ussher’s children, were in the home at the time she was shot. Witnesses told law enforcement that Ussher’s recently separated husband, 44-year-old Jerry Matthew Cox, shot her in the stomach while she was making dinner.
Deputies said the shooting appeared to be unprovoked.
The sheriff’s office charged Cox with attempted first-degree murder. He appeared before a magistrate in Lincoln County and was then placed in jail. He’s being held on a $750,000 bond.
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