NEOSHO COUNTY, Kan. — A Galesburg woman is in custody following a shooting Wednesday afternoon that left her husband hospitalized.
Norine Kernell, 58, is being held without bond on charges of attempted second-degree murder and aggravated battery.
According to the Neosho County Sheriff’s Office, dispatchers received a call shortly after noon on November 4 from a woman who reported shooting her husband.
Deputies and emergency personnel responded to the couple’s residence in rural Galesburg, where they found 59-year-old Montee Kernell suffering from a gunshot wound.
Montee Kernell was transported by air ambulance to Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Missouri, where he was reported to be in stable condition in the intensive care unit.
Authorities have not released a possible motive for the shooting.
The investigation remains ongoing.
