Deputies said the man survived after being shot during a relationship argument at a Cherokee County residence.

ALTO, Texas — A 33-year-old woman was jailed after deputies said she shot her live-in boyfriend twice Monday evening at a home on County Road 2813 near Alto, leaving him wounded but stable at a Tyler hospital.

Alanna Dawn Bilbo is accused of aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury to a person with whom she had a dating relationship. The charge followed a 7 p.m. response by Cherokee County sheriff’s deputies to a report of a shooting. Authorities said the case moved quickly from an initial report of an accident to a criminal investigation after detectives spoke with Bilbo and reviewed the scene.

The shooting began with an argument about the couple’s relationship, according to a probable cause statement described by authorities. Detectives said Bilbo was inside or near the doorway of the residence while the man stood outside near a stairway. The man, whose name was not released in the reports, was yelling for her to shoot him, investigators said. The document says Bilbo fired a .22 caliber revolver and struck him between the eyes. “She shot him between the eyes with a .22 caliber revolver,” the probable cause statement says, according to the case account.

Investigators said the wounded man then turned to his left and held his face with his hands. Bilbo is accused of firing a second shot that hit him in the back of the neck. Deputies and emergency workers responded to the rural Cherokee County home, and the man was flown to a hospital in Tyler. Cherokee County Sheriff Brent Dickson said the victim was listed in stable condition as of Tuesday. Officials did not release further details on the man’s injuries, his age, the surgery or treatment he received, or whether he had spoken with investigators after arriving at the hospital.

The home is on County Road 2813 in the Alto area, a small East Texas community in the Piney Woods region roughly 26 miles west of Nacogdoches. The location shaped the response because the call came from outside a major city, where sheriff’s deputies often handle domestic disturbances, gunfire reports and serious assaults across long stretches of county road. The case file described the man as Bilbo’s live-in boyfriend, making the allegation a relationship violence case rather than a shooting involving strangers. Authorities have not said how long the two had lived together or who owned the revolver.

After deputies arrived, detectives spoke with Bilbo after she was advised of her rights, according to the probable cause account. She told investigators that the two had been in a verbal argument about their relationship before the shooting. Dickson later said the shooting was first reported as an accident. He also said both Bilbo and the victim were allegedly using drugs at the time. Officials did not identify the drugs, say how investigators reached that conclusion, or announce any drug charge tied to the shooting. The accusation involving drug use remains part of the sheriff’s public description of the scene.

Bilbo was booked into the Cherokee County Jail with bond set at $150,000. Court records described in reports say a magistrate judge also issued a protective order barring her from contacting the victim for three months. The order also prohibits her from possessing a firearm during that period. Those conditions create the first court limits around the case while prosecutors and investigators continue to review the shooting. Records available in the early reports did not show that Bilbo had entered a plea, and no defense attorney statement was included in the public accounts.

The charge places the case in the felony court process, where investigators may gather medical records, witness statements, firearm evidence and any recorded emergency calls. Authorities have not said whether anyone else saw the shooting, whether the revolver was recovered at the scene, or whether ballistics testing had been requested. The victim’s survival leaves prosecutors with a case focused on serious bodily injury rather than homicide. Still, the two alleged shots to the head and neck remain central to the accusation and to any later court presentation. The shooting also left unanswered questions about the first report that described the gunfire as accidental. Dickson said the case was reported that way at first, but the probable cause account later described two deliberate shots during an argument. The public reports do not say who called 911, what that person told dispatchers, or how quickly deputies reached the residence. They also do not say whether Bilbo made a detailed statement after being Mirandized or whether investigators recorded the interview on body camera or another device.

By Tuesday, the immediate scene had shifted from County Road 2813 to two separate places: the Tyler hospital where the victim was stable and the Cherokee County Jail where Bilbo remained held. The next public milestone is expected through court filings, including any indictment decision, bond review or scheduled appearance in the assault case.

Author note: Last updated June 18, 2026.