Former Elk Rapids woman arrested in son's slaying

ELK RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A northern Michigan woman has been charged in the fatal shooting of her teenage son almost two years ago.

Police arrested 39-year-old Anne Avery-Miller on Tuesday morning outside her Williamsburg home. Grand Traverse County Circuit Judge Philip Rodgers, serving as a one-man grand jury, indicted Avery-Miller last month.

Avery-Miller is being held in the Antrim County Jail pending a Nov. 16 pretrial hearing on an open count of murder.

Avery-Miller contended that her son, 16-year-old Sam Avery, died Nov. 7, 2007 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in their home. But authorities announced in August that a forensic pathologist ruled the death a homicide.

Avery-Miller's attorney Carl Marlinga, a former Macomb County prosecutor, tells the Traverse City Record-Eagle that his client had no part in her son's death.