MIAMI SPRINGS, Fla. — Miami Springs police arrested a man on two criminal charges after they said he accidentally shot his wife at their home on Sunday night. She survived.
Police said Michael Martinez, 41, shot his wife just before 9 p.m. while handling a gun in the kitchen of their home in the 500 block of Esplanade Drive. Medics airlifted her to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.
According to an arrest report from the Miami Springs Police Department, the woman told detectives from her hospital bed that Martinez “obtained the firearms earlier in the day and that he was handling them inside of the house” and was handling a revolver by the kitchen island while she did the dishes…