Point Marion man sentenced to 4 to 8 years in prison for shooting wife
The Point Marion man who shot his wife and blamed his son has been sentenced to serve four to eight years in prison.
Last week, James Daniel Whoolery, 37, accepted a plea agreement to a charge of aggravated assault.
State police charged Whoolery for shooting his wife, Kelly Irene Whoolery, in the abdomen after firing five shots into a camper in Springhill Township in June.
Police said that Kelly Whoolery was arguing with her son and his girlfriend when Daniel Whoolery came into the camper along New Geneva Road and started beating the son.
Kelly Whoolery was able to pull her husband off her son, police said. Daniel Whoolery returned shortly after and fired the rounds into the camper, and blamed her son for the shooting.
Kelly Whoolery was transported to Ruby Memorial Hospital.
At Daniel Whoolery’s Tuesday sentencing, Fayette County President Judge John F. Wagner Jr. recommended he enroll in an anger management program while in the custody of the state Department of Corrections.
Whoolery was represented by Attorney Vincent M. Tiberi.