News bites for July 17, 2023
A woman is in the hospital after her husband allegedly cut her throat in front of this Soap Lake ice cream shop, according to Soap Lake Police.
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SOAP LAKE — A Quincy man is in jail after cutting his wife’s throat, according to a statement from the Soap Lake Police Department.
Samuel Y. Montoya Arroyo, 51, was booked into Grant County Jail Thursday on charges of attempted first-degree murder, according to the announcement.
Emergency personnel responded about 11:45 Thursday morning to a call from the Tutti Frutti ice cream shop at 27 Daisy Street South, according to the statement. There they found a woman on the sidewalk bleeding from the front of her neck. The woman, whose name was not given, was airlifted to Confluence Health-Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee. Her current condition is unknown, the statement said.
Montoya Arroyo fled the scene, but later surrendered at the Ephrata Police Department.