Inset: Elizabeth Deore (Campbell County Detention Center). Background: The Campbell County Detention Center (Google Maps).
A 22-year-old woman in Wyoming is facing multiple felony charges after she allegedly attacked her 24-year-old husband with a knife twice in the same night following a few drinks of tequila.
Elizabeth Deore was taken into custody last month and charged with two counts of felonious restraint, one count of aggravated assault, and one count of misdemeanor domestic assault. Deputies with the Campbell County Sheriff”s Office at about 11:39 p.m. on Oct. 15 responded to a call regarding a domestic disturbance at the home Deore shares with her husband in Wright, a small town some 200 miles north of Cheyenne. The caller told the dispatcher that Deore was chasing her husband around their home with a knife, the Gillette News Record reported.
The caller, a male, told the dispatcher that three minutes after the initial call was placed, Deore was still armed with a knife and had her husband pinned with his back against a wall as she repeatedly struck him with the non-knife-wielding hand, local news website County 17 reported.
Eight minutes after the initial call had been placed, the man said he heard Deore yell, “You’ll be f—ing dead.”
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Upon arriving, deputies reportedly said they found the husband — who appeared to be unharmed — sitting in the living room and observed a kitchen knife on the floor. Deore was lying down in the bedroom, appearing to be drunk but otherwise unharmed.
A couple who live nearby and were at the home during the incident told authorities that Deore had just found out that her husband had been communicating with another local woman, per the News Record.
The other couple reportedly said that they had all been hanging out together that evening and Deore had been drinking tequila. At some point, they said she went into a “rage” and sent her husband out of the house with the other man. She then reportedly cut up her husband’s ID cards before dousing his clothing in bleach.
When the husband returned, their fight continued to escalate until Deore allegedly grabbed a fillet knife and chased her husband around, slashing with the knife while threatening to kill him.
When her husband locked himself in the bathroom, Deore allegedly responded by yelling, “I’m going to kill you motherf—er,” and stabbing the door until she bent the fillet knife. That’s when the neighbors said Deore went back to the kitchen and picked up a butcher’s knife, which she allegedly used to chase her husband around after he exited the bathroom.
The altercation reportedly ended when Deore fell to the floor. Her husband said she was “overheating” and he brought her to the bathroom and put her in a cold shower. She was later taken to the hospital where medical personnel said she likely had suffered an epileptic seizure due to her body temperature.
After being medically cleared, Deore was placed under arrest and processed at the Campbell County Detention Center.
Inside the home, investigators reportedly noted that sections of the bathroom door had been repeatedly slashed and stabbed with what appeared to be a knife.
Despite the allegations against Deore, her husband reportedly wrote a letter to the court claiming that she did nothing wrong and the witnesses were not even inside of the home during the alleged attack.
“She is an amazing mother and a better wife,” he wrote, the News Record reported. “She might [have] a short fuse but she has never done anything like this before.”
It was not immediately clear if Deore was still in detention or when she was scheduled to appear in court again.
