A Baltimore County day care owner who shot her husband after confronting him about allegations that he sexually abused children pleaded guilty on Monday to aggravated assault and carrying a pistol without a license.

Shanteari Weems, 50, of Randallstown, the owner of Lil Kidz Kastle Daycare Center in Owings Mills, admitted that she drove from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., with a loaded handgun and shot her husband, James, twice on July 21 after an argument in his hotel room in the Mandarin Oriental hotel.

D.C. Metropolitan Police reported that they found a notebook after executing a search warrant in the hotel room in which Weems wrote that she intended to shoot and paralyze her husband but not kill him.

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