An elderly woman was shot over the weekend in east Alabama, and now four people are under arrest.

Cherokee County Sheriff Jeff Shaver said the shooting happened Sunday afternoon in the Wild Wood Cove area.

Deputies responded to a home on County Road 620 after receiving a 911 call of a person shot. They arrived to find the 94-year-old victim had been shot through a window.

The suspects, the sheriff said, were shooting in a wooded area across the cove. They shot into a neighboring patch of woods without a proper backstop.

The victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to recover.

Those charged with second degree assault are: Byron Mitchell, 44, Mykysta Mitchell, 39, Timothy Fries, 43, and Tracie Lambert, 44.

The Mitchells live in Indiana. Fries and Lambert are both from South Carolina.

All four suspects were booked into the Cherokee County Jail Sunday evening and released a short time later after posting bond.

“People just don’t think,’’ Shaver said. “Just make sure if you’re going to target practice, you have a proper backstop or you could have unintended consequences.”