Inset: Alanna Bilbo (Cherokee County Sheriff”s Office). Background: The county road where Bilbo and her boyfriend live in Alto, Texas (Google Maps).
In a shocking incident from Texas, a woman has been taken into custody after allegedly shooting her live-in boyfriend directly between the eyes. This alarming event has been confirmed by law enforcement officials in the Lone Star State.
Alanna Dawn Bilbo, aged 33, faces a serious charge: aggravated assault that resulted in significant bodily harm to someone she is romantically involved with. This charge was detailed in documents acquired by Law&Crime.
The troubling episode unfolded on a Monday evening at their home located on County Road 2813 in Alto, a small suburban area nestled in the Piney Woods region, approximately 26 miles west of Nacogdoches.
Responding to reports of a shooting, deputies from the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the scene just after 7 p.m., as outlined in a statement of probable cause.
Upon entering the residence, detectives engaged with Bilbo, who had been informed of her rights. According to authorities, Bilbo recounted that she and her live-in boyfriend were embroiled in a “verbal argument” centered on issues within their relationship.
What began as a heated discussion quickly escalated into a confrontation marked by taunting, which tragically spiraled into immediate violence, as revealed in the charging document.
“Alanna was standing in the doorway of their residence and [the boyfriend] was standing outside in front of the stairway yelling at her to shoot him, and she shot him between the eyes with a .22 caliber revolver,” the probable cause statement reads.
After being shot between the eyes, the man is said to have turned to his left while holding his face with his hands as Bilbo allegedly “shot him again in the back of the neck,” according to the sheriff’s office.
On Tuesday, Cherokee County Sheriff Brent Dickson said the shooting was at first reported as an accident, in comments reported by Jacksonville, Texas-based NBC affiliate KETK.
After the incident, the victim was flown to a hospital in Tyler, where he was in stable condition as of Tuesday, according to the sheriff.
The defendant and her boyfriend were both allegedly using drugs at the time of the shooting, Dickson told KETK.
Bilbo is currently detained in the Cherokee County Jail on $150,000 bond. A magistrate judge issued a protective order that bars the defendant from contacting her boyfriend for the next three months and prohibits her from possessing a firearm, records show.
