Crime & Safety

Woman Pointed Shotgun at Victims, Deputies Say

The gun went off, and a shot hit a home that was occupied.

Stephanie Hoffman got into an argument with a woman in the driveway of a home on Nora Lane in Elfers on Wednesday, according to an arrest report from the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office.

She left the scene, went to her residence nearby and got a shotgun. She then returned to the driveway of the woman's home and pointed the gun at the woman and another woman, the report said.

The two victims told deputies they tried to pull the gun away from Hoffman, 29. 

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During the struggle, the gun went off, and the shot hit a house, which was occupied. Hoffman eventually fled to her home at 3545 Nora Lane.

When deputies questioned Hoffman, she told them she thought she grabbed a BB gun, not a shotgun. 

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Hoffman was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated battery and one count of shooting into a building. She remained in the Land O' Lakes jail Thursday, May 16 in lieu of $15,000 bail.

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