Bremerton woman charged with stabbing husband with samurai sword during argument

Andrew Binion | Kitsap

PORT ORCHARD -- A Bremerton woman accused of stabbing her husband in the arm with a samurai sword -- which required him to be flown to a Seattle hospital for treatment -- was charged Wednesday with second-degree assault.

Police were called at 12:38 a.m. Wednesday to the residence on the 2100 block of Seventh Street after the man called police.

He told officers he and his wife had been fighting over her infidelity and he had demanded she leave. The woman went to find the deed to the house, saying she owned it too, and when she couldn’t find it she charged him. The man said he shoved her to the ground to keep her from attacking him. She then ran downstairs to a sword mounted on the wall. The man followed.

“I ran up to her as she grabbed the sword and she turned around and … impaled me,” the man told officers, according to reports.

Officers described the wound as four inches long, one inch wide and down to the bone. The man said he lost feeling in his hand. He was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

The woman at first told officers that her husband cut himself during a struggle with the sword, which she said she needed to protect herself after her husband “slammed” her to the ground unprovoked. While driving the woman to the Kitsap County Jail the officer wrote the woman said she stabbed her husband in self-defense.

The woman pleaded not guilty in Kitsap County Superior Court to the charges.