(FOX40.COM) — Officials in far Northern California detained a man who they say accidentally fatally shot his mother with a stolen rifle .
The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said that on the afternoon of October 2, deputies responded to a residence in the community of Dorris and found Mary Loretta Curtz, 55, with a fatal gunshot wound.
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Dorris is located close to the border with Oregon, about 280 miles north of Sacramento.
The sheriff’s office said that while deputies were at the site, a man called emergency services and reported that he “accidentally shot his mother with a stolen rifle.”
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Emergency dispatchers continued talking with the 22-year-old man and convinced him to turn himself in to California Highway Patrol officers, the sheriff’s office said.
The man was arrested and taken to the Siskiyou County Jail.
The sheriff’s office asks anyone with information about this case to call 530-841-2900.