PORT ORCHARD, Wash. — A Bremerton woman has been charged with second-degree assault after authorities say she stabbed her husband in the arm with a samurai sword.
The Kitsap Sun reports the man called police early Wednesday morning and was later flown to a Seattle hospital.
The man told police that he had been fighting with his wife and demanded that she leave their house. He says the woman grabbed the sword mounted on a wall and impaled him as he ran up to her.
The woman first told officers that her husband had cut himself during the struggle, but she later claimed it was self-defense.
According to police, the sword caused a 4-inch (10-centimeter) wound down to the bone.
The woman has pleaded not guilty to the charge in Kitsap County Superior Court.
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Information from: Kitsap Sun, http://www.kitsapsun.com/
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