BOXBOROUGH, Mass. — A 61-year-old woman has been charged with stabbing her adult son in Boxborough.
The Lowell Sun reports that the 22-year-old son reported the attack that allegedly happened inside the Boxborough home they share shortly after midnight on Nov. 8.
Boxborough police say 61-year-old Karin Evans told them she stabbed her son in self-defense because he attacked her with a pair of tin shears.
Police say the mother appeared to have been drinking.
The son says she stabbed him in the shoulder with a knife because she was angry he smoked inside the home.
Evans, facing charges including armed assault with intent to murder, was released on personal recognizance after a dangerousness hearing last week under the condition she not consume alcohol.
Evans is due back in court on Jan. 3.