A Kansas woman said she didn’t mean to shoot her 16-year-old son in the head earlier this month but may have meant to shoot over his head to scare him.

Tesha Florence, 46, also known as Tesha Jenkins, faces a second degree murder charge in the death of Robert Florence, her teenage son, KAKE reports.

Police were called to Florence’s Wichita apartment just after 8 a.m. on October 9, where they found the boy lying face down on the floor with a gunshot to the head. He was tkane to Wesley Medical Center in critical condition. He died two days later.

An affidavit in the case, released this week, says that officers on the scene secured a Ruger 9mm handgun they said had a round in the chamber and two in the magazine. While walking Jenkins out to the patrol car, she told the officers she “shot my baby” and asked them to kill her. She told the officers that she was irritated because her son was supposed to go to school but didn’t want to and that she had pointed the gun at him but didn’t intend to shoot him.

After she was read her Miranda rights, Jenkins reportedly told investigators Robert was a “bad kid” who was into drugs and wouldn’t go to school. After her other children left for school, she called the school and told them that Robert would not be coming in. After that, she said, Robert told her he was going to a neighbors “to get some ‘weed'” and continued to antagonize her by pulling down curtains and tearing up paper. She told detectives he was “pushing her buttons.”

At one point, she said, Robert reached for her black backpack, where she kept her gun, and took it out. He did not point it at her or make any threats, she said, but she “lunged forward” and took the gun from him, telling him, “do you just want to die” as she pointed the gun at him. It “went off,” she said, and Robert fell forward.

Tesha Jenkins Unredacted Affidavit by kc wildmoon on Scribd

Jenkins told police she believed the gun was empty but admitted she may have loaded two rounds into it a couple weeks earlier when she was walking home from work. She also admitted she “tacked the slide back” to chamber the next round when she took the gun from her son.

“Jenkins denied intending to shoot Robert but admitted that she may have intended to discharge the handgun with the intent to scare Robert,” the affidavit says.

Jenkins is due in court this week.

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[Featured image: Tesha Jenkins/Sedgwick County Jail]