Steven Self’s attempted murder case has been pushed off to June after a last-minute change.

The Weems man is accused of trying to kill his 24-year-old niece and 27-year-old pregnant daughter-in-law, court records show.

On November 26, 2025, the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call for a domestic dispute with shots fired and went to Self’s home around 9:30 p.m. “The male” was ordered to come out of the house, according to the criminal complaint, and Self came from the back and was taken into custody.

LCSO Officer Longest reported that statements from those involved and video show “an intoxicated Steven Self was verbally abusing his wife.” The couple’s niece and daughterin- law, who was 26 weeks pregnant, “confronted” him. He went and got a gun from the bed, the complaint says.

Court records show Self claimed he and his wife had been arguing for weeks. He had packed, planning to move out, but started unpacking because his wife wanted him to stay.

On the night of the incident, they went to a family dinner, and he told his wife when they returned home he was leaving. Self reportedly claimed that while he was packing, the women started arguing with him, and his niece and daughter-in-law both slapped him.

He claimed his daughter-in-law grabbed a gun and pointed it at him. Then he grabbed a gun, the records state.

The complaint states that his wife held the bedroom door closed and told the other two women to get out of the house. When Self got out of the room, he ran outside and shot at the vehicle the women were in.

Longest reported that the two women had to stop at a neighbor’s house because of a flat tire. It was determined that a bullet went into the tire, melted, and cut the tire open. The bullet hit and cracked the rim, then ricocheted and heat-bonded to the rim.

Longest claims Self admitted there was an argument and he got a gun and shot in the air to scare them. Longest reported there is video that “shows Steven shooting twice toward the vehicle and not in the air.” He said Self smelled like alcohol and admitted he had been drinking.

The report also stated that Self had a gun on his hip with a loaded magazine and a bullet in the chamber when he surrendered to police.

Self is charged with using a firearm in the commission of a felony and two counts each of attempted second-degree murder and malicious shooting at an occupied vehicle. His jury trial was set to begin last Tuesday.

Instead, the court addressed a motion from David Eberline to withdraw as Self’s attorney. Fundamental differences arose between Eberline and Self that could not be resolved and made the attorney’s job “unreasonably difficult,” court documents state.

Eberline was replaced by James Breeden. Self’s two-day jury trial is now set to begin June 3.