Police say a Niles woman told them she shot the father of her child early Tuesday.

The woman called 9-1-1 at around 1:30 a.m., telling a dispatcher that she shot her boyfriend in the chest at her Royal Mall apartment. The woman claimed she thought her boyfriend "was someone else".

When police arrived, the victim, 27-year-old Rodney Darrell Cole of Youngstown, told police had been shot at a local bar.

When police asked the woman why it appeared that the apartment’s back door had been kicked open, the woman told officers that Cole had forced his way inside, walking to an upstairs bedroom with a gun, where the woman and her child were at the time.

According to police, the woman said she pulled out her own gun and shot Cole, who was taken to Mercy Hospital in Youngstown, where he is being treated for a serious gunshot wound.

Police say they are still investigating and will discuss charges with the prosecutor.