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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Brighton Township, PA) A man is in custody after police said he shot his mother inside a Brighton Township home today. 

Emergency crews were called to the 100 block of Fox Water Trail shortly before 5 a.m. 

According to Beaver County District Attorney Nate Bible, the woman was life-flighted to a hospital and is in stable condition. 

Detective Sergeant Eric Schwartz of the Brighton Township Police Department confirmed that the suspect was thirty-eight-year-old Daniel Kernich of Brighton Township.

A boy that lived nearby said that he heard the woman crying for help in the street and woke up his family, who called 911. 

Brighton Township police confirm that the investigation into this incident remains ongoing. Kernich is being held at the Beaver County Jail and he faces charges of attempted criminal homicide, aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person.