BEND, Ore. -- A well-known Bend developer was shot and critically wounded by his wife at their home on Bend’s Westside early Wednesday. Police said she told officers she was awakened by a noise and sent her husband to investigate, then thought he was an intruder.

Stephen Trono, 60, was in critical condition at midday at St. Charles Medical Center-Bend, officials said.

Bend police Lt. Ben Gregory said officers were called to a home on Mount Shasta Drive, off Shevlin Park Road, on a report a man had been shot.

Angelicque Trono, 39, was awakened by a noise and sent her husband to investigate, Gregory said.

“At some point, Stephen was shot by Angelicque, who (said she) thought her husband was an intruder,” he said in a news release.

Stephen Trono was taken by ambulance to the Bend hospital, Gregory said, adding that a handgun was found and seized from the home.

More information will be released as the investigation continues, Gregory said. He said at least one of the couple's children, their 18-year-old son, was home at the time of the incident.

"That would not be a good situation. That would be very frightful, very frightful," said a neighbor. "I hope that we'll talk about this in the neighborhood, and resolve what's happened or what's going on. I don't know."

Trono, a San Francisco native, founded a firm, The Trono Company, in 1980 that offered marketing, management and sales consulting services.

His firm has been involved since 1987 in acquisition, development, marketing and sales of real estate developments in Central Oregon and the Portland metro area.

Projects on the High Desert have included Valley View, Terrango and The Summit, and Wild River in Sunriver.

In late 2005, he proposed the Mercato, a mixed-use project in the Old Mill District, on the site of the Brooks-Scanlon “crane shed” torn down amid controversy by the site’s previous owner, Crown Investment Group.

But the project stalled as the real estate market and economy soured, and Medford’s PremierWest Bank filed suit in March against Trono and his firm, seeking repayment of the loan securing the property, modified several times and totaling $3.8 million.

Last year, Trono was hired by Arctus Capital to join the management team of the Bend firm, which specializes in short-term bridge loans to commercial property buyers and developers.

On The Trono Company’s Website, which listed an “expected completion date” of the Mercato project of last summer, it said Trono and his wife of 16 years “are the proud parents of five children ... and serve their community by helping multiple charities and churches in Bend and across the Pacific to the Philippines.”

The background statement concluded: “What we vividly imagine, ardently believe and pursue with joy and determination, will inevitably occur.”