PRESCOTT, AZ (KNXV) – A woman was taken into custody on suspicion of fatally shooting her mother near a campground in Prescott Sunday.
At around 1 p.m., Yavapai County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to an area near the White Spar Trailhead after a woman reported that she shot her mother.
Deputies arrived to find a woman with a gunshot wound, and despite life-saving efforts, she was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to sheriff’s officials, the victim’s daughter – described as a woman in her 20s – turned herself in.
The circumstances that led to the shooting are under investigation.
