ODESSA TOWNSHIP, Mich. >> A Michigan homeowner has been charged with shooting and wounding an 84-year-old woman who was canvassing door-to-door against a proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to abortion in the state.

Richard Harvey was charged Friday on charges of felonious assault and reckless discharge of a firearm causing injury charges, Ionia County Prosecutor Kyle Butler said in a statement.

Harvey surrendered to authorities Friday morning and was being held in the county jail.

The state police investigated the Sept. 20 shooting at Harvey’s home in Odessa Township, a community about 130 miles northwest of Detroit, and submitted charging recommendations to the prosecutor’s office, Butler said.

Harvey was being represented by a public defender.

The canvasser, Joan Jacobson, told investigators that she was asking a woman at the home to vote against Proposal 3 in November when she was told to leave. Jacobson told The Detroit News for a story she was headed to her car when she “heard a shot” and “felt some pain.”

Jacobson said she then drove to a local police station and was later treated at a hospital.

Harvey, 74, told WOOD-TV he shot Jacobson accidentally while she was arguing with his wife.

Harvey told the television station that he fired a warning shot at a tree with his wife’s .22-caliber rifle. He said the woman continued “ranting and raving” and waving a clipboard.

“I’m thinking she’s going to smack Sharon with it,” Richard Harvey said. “So without thinking, I went to club it away with the rifle and my finger was still in the trigger guard. It went off and hit her.”