KITSAP COUNTY, Wash. — A domestic situation spiraled out of control over the weekend in Kitsap County, as a man allegedly shot his estranged wife's new boyfriend in the abdomen following a high-speed chase and car crash.
A 21-year-old man and his 31-year-old girlfriend were near the Kitsap County Fairgrounds on the evening of Oct. 12, where the woman was meeting her husband so he could pick up the couple's 8-year-old son after a visit.
Officials said when the woman and her boyfriend were leaving, the husband drove by and began shooting at the couple. The woman and her boyfriend tried to drive away, but deputies said the man chased after them in his car and continued shooting.
Eventually, the husband passed the other vehicle on the road, made a U-turn and smashed into his wife and her boyfriend head-on, deputies said. The husband and boyfriend exited their vehicles and began yelling at each other, before the husband pulled a handgun and shot the boyfriend in the abdomen.
The wife then got out of the car, and "the three of them began fighting in the street." The gun was eventually kicked away and was guarded by a witness to the fight. The two men eventually began fighting in a ditch, and when a Kitsap County deputy arrived, they found the boyfriend holding the husband down in a headlock in the ditch.
The boyfriend was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center to treat his gunshot wound. The husband was taken to a local hospital before being transferred to the Kitsap County Jail. He was booked on suspicion of first-degree assault and drive-by shooting, deputies said. He is being held in jail without bail, deputies said.
The woman and the child were not injured, per Kitsap County deputies.
