by Marta Murvosh
LA CONNER — A Kirkland man was arrested early on investigation of attempted second-degree murder after his girlfriend told deputies that he attacked her with a knife at a bed and breakfast, stabbing her hand.
The victim, a 35-year-old Kirkland woman, was at Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon today being treated, according to a hospital spokeswoman. At noon, information on her condition wasn’t available.
The man remained in the Skagit County Jail today and bail had not been set.
Skagit County sheriff’s deputies were called to The Guesthouse at The Quarry on Dodge Valley Road at around 10:24 p.m. Sunday when the bed and breakfast owner called 911, reporting a domestic violence incident.
When deputies arrived, the woman told them that she and her boyfriend, a 34-year-old Kirkland man, had been spending the night at the guesthouse, trying to work on their relationship, said sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Don McDermott. Apparently, the couple had been having problems and were trying to work things out, he said.
On Sunday night, the boyfriend awoke the woman demanding that she give him her medications for his own use, and she refused, deputies said.
The woman was able to get the man outside their room, but he broke in, telling her that he would harm and kill her, McDermott said. Once he got into the room, he assaulted her by hitting and kicking her and attacking her with a knife, McDermott said.
She told deputies that it was difficult to remember everything that happened while she was attacked but her boyfriend made statements that he would kill her.
Deputies said that she was stabbed in the hand. Her boyfriend then fled the scene and was found by K-9 handler Deputy Laurie Craig and Boone, a German shepherd that tracks people, and arrested, McDermott said.
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