Man Accused Of Shooting Girlfriend’s Ex-Husband

Police say a Chesterfield man early Sunday shot his girlfriend’s ex-husband, then accidentally shot himself in the foot. The Star Press reports 40 year old James Nicholas Abbott was arrested on a preliminary count of aggravated battery . He was found outside a hom with a foot wound. A 29 year old man who had been married to Abbott’s girlfriend was found lying in the roadway on Delaware County Road 700-S with two gunshots wounds to the leg.