ALLANTON — Medical examiners loaded the body of 41-year-old James Ivey into a van shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday and drove away from his home in Allanton after an argument turned deadly that afternoon.
Deputies found Ivey dead and his son, 21-year-old Kyle Ivey, with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
Investigators learned Ivey and his wife had been arguing earlier that afternoon. As things escalated initially, the wife took her cellphone and fled to hide in the woods near the couple’s mobile home on sparsely-populated dirt road. Ivey got into his truck and drove off, the Sheriff’s Office reported.
Kyle Ivey arrived and called his mother on her cellphone when he found no one home. She came out of hiding and returned to the residence.
Her husband returned a short time later and the arguing resumed.
Feeling the need to protect his mother, the Sheriff’s Office said Kyle Ivey placed himself between his parents. James Ivey then retrieved a firearm from his room and threatened to kill his wife. Kyle Ivey also had access to a weapon and the two began to shoot at one another.
Kyle’s mother fled again to a neighbor’s house to call 911. She returned to find her son still alive, although he’d been shot in the abdomen, the Sheriff’s Office reported.
She told investigators that Kyle attempted to calm his father several times before the shooting began.
Sheriff’s investigators remained at the home for several hours. By sundown, James Ivey’s body was turned over to the Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy and his son was hospitalized.
Saturday’s shooting makes the second domestic fatality in