EVERETT — A woman who admits she shot a man early Sunday told police the violence broke out over his unwanted advances, not jealousy over messages from another woman.
The shooting occurred about 3 a.m. Sunday outside a home in the 9100 block of Fifth Place W. When Everett police arrived, they found a man in his early 20s in the driveway with a gunshot wound through his abdomen.
The man told police he and the woman had been to a local bar and went to his home. They were still in the car outside when an argument erupted over text messages he’d received from other women, he said.
The man had a 9mm Glock handgun in the car. The woman grabbed it, shot him, and then fired other shots into the air and ground, he said.
Both the man and the woman, 21, said they do not have a significant dating relationship. She told police he became sexually aggressive in the car and asked her to join him in the house. When she refused, he took away her car key, she said.
The woman told police that she grabbed the handgun from under the front passenger seat and they struggled for control of the weapon.
The woman said that the man “told her to shoot him if that’s what she was going to do,” according to a police report.
She shot him as he stood just outside the driver’s side door. She claimed he then took the gun away from her and fired several times, but not at her, the police report said.
The woman cooperated with police, who recovered several shell casings at the scene. They arrested her for investigation of first-degree assault with a firearm.
There were no witnesses to the shooting.
Scott North: 425-339-3431; north@heraldnet.com. Twitter: @snorthnews.
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