A 73-year-old man is recovering after he was shot while trying to help a woman involved in an apparent domestic dispute in Upper Darby.
Surveillance video shows the incident unfolding in a parking lot on the 400 block of South 69th Street on Friday afternoon.
Police said a 37-year-old man and his girlfriend were fighting when he threw her to the ground. That’s when the 73-year-old man intervened with a hatchet in hand.
Video shows the boyfriend knocking the man’s hat off. Soon after, the 73-year-old hit the boyfriend in the shoulder with the hatchet.
Police said the boyfriend told officers he grabbed his gun and shot the man in the foot because he was old.
“Seventy-three years old, he probably thought, ‘I’m just going to tell this dude to calm down. Whatever it is, it’s going to be okay.’ He probably never in a million years expected for it to go like that,” said Sharann Long from Upper Darby.
Police said both men were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
As detectives collected evidence at the scene, employees and shoppers were surprised.