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Man Shoots His Nagging Mom
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Jen Chung
Published Sep 25, 2009
Modified Sep 25, 2009
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Police are searching for a 26-year-old man who shot his mother three times in their Queens home, allegedly because she was on his case. A police source tells the Daily News, "She was on him about his son. He's a preemie, sick in the hospital, and she was giving him a piece of her mind." The mother is expected to survive.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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