Vermont prosecutors say that a woman brought a hammer to a firearms class and then tried to kill the instructor by shooting him in the face.

According to Foxnews, Thirty-one-year-old Veronica Lewis, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the attempt first-degree murder. Authorities state that she went to 48-year-old Darryl Montague’s Westford home, where he runs a licensed firearms business, for the lesson Monday.

Police state that Montague was later found lying at the age of the road. Paramedics and the Police initially thought he may have been struck by a vehicle, but they then discovered he had been shot in the torso and jaw.

Darryl is currently hospitalized in critical condition.

Lewis is however being held without bail. The county public defender has not yet spoken to the press about the incident. In the court, her attorney stated that the shooting wasn’t premeditated.

Lewis fired three shots at Montague, that stroke him twice, the Chittenden County State Attorney T.J. Donovan said. She fled, and she gave a false phone number when she was apprehended.

Lewis lives in a therapeutic community residence, a state regulated home that provides short-term treatment to people with problems like alcoholism, drug abuse or mental illness, Donovan said. She lied to the home about where she was going on Monday, he said.

The county prosecutor’s office even though contested had argued that Lewis shooting was premeditated. The hammer she was carrying shows premeditation. Donovan said.

Montagues’s mother, Ann said Lewis had come for a lesson on Friday saying her friend had been shooting, and she wanted to try it. She returned on Monday saying she wanted to learn more.

“She didn’t even know him to get any inkling to decide that she should do such harm to him,” She said. : I don’t know how she can live with herself.”