Authorities responded to a 911 call on Sunday afternoon from a man saying his wife had attached him. Police were met outside by the reporting party who said his wife was still inside the house. A deputy went inside to talk with the woman, who was sitting on the bed in the bedroom. As the deputy entered the room, the woman said, “I hit him first.”
She went on to tell the deputy that she and her husband had gotten into an argument over moving a couch. She went to the bedroom, and shut the door, but her husband came in after her and continued the argument. She said that she slapped her husband, who slapped her back, then grabbed her wrists and forced her down on the bed where he held her.
When asked about her injuries, the woman showed the officer a scratch on her wrist. She also pointed out that her face was red from him slapping her, but the deputy noted in his report that the woman had just slapped herself to demonstrate how her husband had allegedly slapped her. She claimed a bruise on her calf was also caused by her husband holding her down but the deputy noted that the bruise appeared old and was healing.
The husband told a slightly different story. He said that he and his wife were arguing over the couch, but when she shut herself in the bedroom, he heard several crashes that made him suspect she was destroying things so he went to investigate. As soon as he opened the door, she allegedly attacked him, scratching his throat and face. The deputy noted that his injuries were more significant than the scratch that his wife had shown them.
With the evidence pointing to the wife being the aggressor, the deputies placed her under arrest for domestic violence and booked her into the Graham County Jail.
