A 27-year-old Plattsburg man is dead, his mother is in the hospital with a gunshot wound to the head, and his father is in jail in Clinton County charged with Murder, Assault, and Armed Criminal Action.

All that from a single gunshot.

The shooting allegedly sprung from a family argument at the family’s home at 1571 NW 296th Street near Plattsburg Tuesday night.

Clinton County Prosecuting Attorney Bill Burris on Wednesday filed charges against Richard Dale Vardy.

According to court documents, Vardy got into a fight with his adult son. Officials believe a single shot from a .357-magnum hit Vardy’s wife Mary Elizabeth Vardy in the head and then struck his son Richard Jason Vardy in the chest.

Mrs Vardy, 52, is being treated in the intensive care unit at Liberty Hospital. Richard Jason Vardy, 27, was killed.

Burris is hoping a judge will arraign the suspect on Thursday.