Jealous man threatened woman with several kinds of weapons, including sword and crossbow, sheriff's office says

Inset: Jesse Ward (Laramie County Sheriff's Office). Background: The Laramie County Detention Center successful Cheyenne, Wyo. (Google Maps).

A Wyoming antheral is down bars aft a bout of jealousy led him to endanger a pistillate with a bevy of weapons, 1 aft another, instrumentality enforcement successful the Cowboy State says.

Jesse Ward, 45, stands accused of 1 felony number of aggravated assault and artillery and 1 misdemeanor number of domestic battery, according to the Laramie County Sheriff's Office.

The underlying incidental occurred connected Saturday, Oct. 10, according to an affidavit of probable origin obtained by Cowboy State Daily.

That night, Ward accused a pistillate of being unfaithful to him and the concern spiraled from there, the sheriff's bureau said. As the pistillate tried to calm the antheral down, "Jesse alternatively grabbed his 'Glock 40' and pointed it astatine (her) caput portion she sat connected her bed," according to the charging document.

Meanwhile, a video camera with a covered lens was signaling audio, but nary video, from wrong the bedroom, instrumentality enforcement said. Some of that audio was transcribed into the affidavit.

"Jesse is heard to beryllium saying things specified as, 'I'm astir acceptable to termination the evil that's sidesplitting me' and 'I'm astir acceptable to f—in' end you,'" a lawman wrote successful the charging document.

As the antheral allegedly continued to clasp the pistillate astatine gunpoint, helium said, "I'm astir acceptable to marque you devour a bullet" and "I'm astir acceptable to spell to prison." The suspect added, "I volition crook astir and get handcuffed aft I enactment you retired of your misery," according to the affidavit.

Eventually, Ward enactment the weapon down — lone to prime up a sword, authorities say.

"At this constituent successful the video a dependable tin beryllium heard which is accordant with the extremity of a agelong leaf being dragged crossed something," the charging papers reads.

The pistillate would aboriginal archer investigators the suspect pointed the sword astatine her and doubly moved guardant arsenic if to stab her. Ultimately, however, the pistillate was not stabbed, instrumentality enforcement says.

"He kept repeating, 'I privation you to die,' past yelled 'GET BACK,' ordering her to get connected the furniture again," the affidavit continues.

Then, Ward enactment down the sword and picked up a crossbow, the sheriff's bureau said.

The pistillate acknowledged she did not cognize if she was successful information of being shot, authorities said, but claimed to person seen a bolt successful the archery limb arsenic the antheral allegedly pointed it astatine her.

"She did retrieve seeing the extremity of the bolt … and described a three-sided point, emblematic with a broadhead, which is commonly utilized for hunting arsenic opposed to a tract tip, which does not person akin geometry," the lawman wrote successful the affidavit — suggesting "the crossbow was astir apt successful a cocked (ready to fire) position."

Sometime that night, the antheral enactment the crossbow down and the pistillate made her mode to the gun, the sheriff's bureau said.

With the weapon successful hand, the pistillate was capable to get outside, prompting Ward to pursuit the unfortunate earlier she went backmost inside, locked the doorway and dialed 911, according to instrumentality enforcement.

The suspect was capable to barge backmost wrong the location and sound the telephone retired of the woman's hand, but by past deputies were connected their way, the sheriff's bureau said.

Ward is presently detained successful the Laramie County Jail connected a $50,000 cash-only bond. He is slated to look successful tribunal connected Oct. 21.

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