Vanessa Hawkins, 53, was fatally shot in her Jacksonville, Arkansas home in the early hours of Sunday, February 26, 2017. Officers responded about 1 a.m. after reports of a shooting and found her in a bedroom with a gunshot wound.

The couple’s son told police that his father was the shooter. Larry James Hawkins, 63, was at the home and taken into custody by the Jacksonville Police Department. He told detectives the shooting was an accident but was arrested and booked into the Pulaski County jail on multiple charges, including first-degree murder, possession of a firearm by a certain person, and aggravated assault on a family member.

What details about the incident or the relationship might help explain what happened that night?