Tuesday, just before midnight, Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police arrested Joshua Lovett without incident outside of a business on the 1900 block of East Victory Drive.

He was wanted for “shooting his mother and beating her fiancé during an altercation Tuesday afternoon,” police say.

At 12:09 p.m. Metro responded to the residence of Paula Lovett, 49, and her fiancé Thomas Mincey, 54 on the 3300 block Argyle Street.

“Paula Lovett was found inside suffering from a gunshot wound. Mincey was beaten with a baseball bat. Paula Lovett was transported to Memorial University Medical Center in critical condition. Mincey was transported to MUMC in serious but stable condition,” police say.

This article appears in Sep 9-15, 2015.