Grandma Goes On Trial For Shooting Grandson

As wounded teenager Jonathan Hoffman pleaded with 911 dispatchers for help last May, his grandmother allegedly shot him again, a court has heard.

Just as the 17-year-old "thought he was safe ... Sandra Layne walks up and shoots him again. This time in the stomach," prosecutor Paul Walton told a court in Michigan.

The 75-year-old's defence team countered that she feared for her safety during the fatal confrontation last year at her home in the West Bloomfield in suburban Detroit.

The teenager was shot three times in the chest, once in the abdomen and once in his left arm.

He had been living with his grandparents while his mother and father were divorcing.

Jonathan Hoffman had moved in with his grandparents in suburban Detroit

Officers had been called two months earlier, when the grandmother told police she was having a difficult time with her grandson.

Four days before that, the high school senior was pulled over and charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

He received a 93-day suspended sentence and was placed on 12 months' probation.

Sandra Layne is "not a murderer", her attorney Jerome Sabbota said on Tuesday.

"She was afraid. She felt she had no choice. Why else would she shoot him? This is a tragic case."

In Hoffman's 911 call, played during Layne's preliminary examination last summer, the teen yelled into his phone: "I've just been shot. My grandma shot me. I'm going to die. Help."

A few minutes later, he tells the operator: "I got shot, shot again. Please help. Help."

His voice trails off and a woman's shouts are heard in the background.

A police officer said she later walked out of her home with her hands up and screamed: "I murdered my grandson."

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