Guntersville woman charged with shooting a man on North Alabama highway

Guntersville woman charged with shooting a man on North Alabama highway

Marshall County authorities have arrested a Guntersville woman they say shot a man on a busy four-lane highway.

The shooting happened Wednesday, according to the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to the Town of New Hope, where a 59-year-old man was being treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his left shoulder.

The victim told deputies that he had been shot while driving in his vehicle on U.S. 431 near Guntersville Dam Road. The man said he believed he knew who wounded him, and provided some information about the vehicle from which the shot came.

Investigators began looking for three persons of interest related to the shooting, and found one early the next morning – identified as Kelly Wooten, 37, of New Hope. Wooten had warrants for her arrest through Guntersville police and was taken into custody.

She has been charged with shooting into an occupied vehicle and is being held in the Marshall County Jail without bond.

Investigators believe the shooting was an isolated incident, and that the victim and Wooten knew each other.

The Madison County Sheriff’s Office assisted in the case.