The Herald

MARYSVILLE — A Marysville woman was jailed May 9 after she allegedly fired a gun while arguing with her husband about him not helping around the house.

Starlene Roth told police she wasn’t trying to shoot her husband, but she was angry, Marysville police detective Craig Bartl wrote in an affidavit filed May 11 in Everett District Court. Investigators found a bullet in the front doorjamb.

Roth, 54, was booked for investigation of attempted first-degree murder.

Judge Tam Bui found probable cause to hold Roth for investigation of attempted second-degree murder. Bail was set at $250,000.

The man was sitting on a love seat but fled when his wife of 30 years fired at him.

Police arrested Roth, who was convicted of drunken driving last year, but no prior felony convictions.