UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas -- An elderly widow tired of trading insults with high school students parking in front of her house and throwing trash on her lawn shot one in the shoulder Wednesday, police said.
Betty Stein, 66, of University Park, an affluent Dallas suburb, was charged with attempted murder and held in lieu of $20,000 bond, authorities said.
'Apparently there had been an altercation between the woman and some students which led to the shooting of the victim as he was driving past in his car,' police Capt. Tom Van Doren said.
Ward Huey III, 18, was wounded in the shoulder. He was in fair condition at Baylor University Medical Center.
The shooting, in the street adjacent to Highland Park High School, happened shortly before 9:30 a.m., Van Doren said.
'She lives right next to the high school. It's been ongoing about them parking right in front of her yard, throwing things in her yard. She yells at them. They call her names,' Van Doren said.
The teenager is the son of Ward L. Huey Jr., president and chief executive officer of Belo Broadcasting Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of A.H. Belo Corp.
The broadcasting company owns and operates television and radio stations in Dallas, Houston, Sacramento, Calif., Tulsa, Okla., Hampton-Norfolk, Va., and Denver. The parent company also owns The Dallas Morning News and News-Texan Inc., which publishes seven newspapers in Dallas suburbs.
