staff report

FORT WALTON BEACH – A couple with a long history of domestic violence were visited by police officers again after the woman picked up a knife and threatened to stab her husband.

She told Fort Walton Beach Police Department officers that she was trying to pack her things to leave but her husband got mad. She said he has physically battered her in the past so as the situation escalated, she got a kitchen knife and threatened to kill him. 

The couple’s two minor children watched the entire thing, according to her arrest report. 

The 32-year-old woman was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.