The Newton County Sheriff’s Department says a man has been arrested after he shot and wounded his step-son. It happened shortly after 7:00 Friday morning on County Road 4393, about 12 miles southeast of Newton.

According to the report, the victim was 39-year-old Brandon Diggles, who suffered a non-life threatening injury, and the step-father is 64-year-old Ernest Ray Keyes.

Keyes was arrested and has been charged with Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon.

This is the second time that Diggles has been shot. In June of 2023 he was shot twice by Henry Eldridge Shaw in Newton County.

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