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A wedding descended into chaos with reports of a shooting and the groom ending up arrested.
We all know what family get-togethers can get like - there's always one who ends up having a few drinks too many, generally an argument or two and sometimes even one person storms out.
However, this Indiana wedding really ended up in disaster.
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Indiana State Police were called to a wedding night celebration at Cornerstone Hall on 18 May by a woman, who claimed her boyfriend had just been shot - in what she described as a drunken accident - by the groom named Corey Parker.
Despite being legally married in 2022, Parker and his wife decided to celebrate their wedding earlier this month.
The woman who dialled 911 said that Parker had gotten into an argument and fight with another guest called Jonathon Goff after Goff's wife accused him of flirting with another woman.
And Parker later gave his side of the story to authorities.
The groom told police that his wife and Goff's wife had gone back to a hotel they were staying in Salem called the Cobblestone Hotel, Wave reports.
Parker claims as he was leaving the reception, he ended up in an argument with Goff and they both allegedly pushed one another before Parker then tried to leave, climbing into his car.
The groom alleges Goff then followed him into the car and a gun from inside the vehicle ended up in both of their hands.
"In all the rustle and bustle, the gun went off," he claimed, with the woman who called 911's boyfriend ending up in the firing line.
It's not been publicly noted whether it was Parker or Goff who ultimately pulled the trigger, the woman who called 911 noting the whole incident appeared like a drunken altercation and Parker eluding to the confusing kerfuffle which ensured.
The groom did note that he never meant to shoot the other guest and believes they may have been trying to intervene in his and Goff's fight to try and calm them down.
The Daily Mail reports that the man who was shot thankfully didn't sustain severe injuries after being shot in the hand.
Both Parker and Goff are reported as having been charged with battery and criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon.
Both have pleaded not guilty to their crimes, were slapped with a $3,000 cash bond and are set to appear in court next month before going on trial in September later this year.
UNILAD has contacted Indiana State Police for comment.
