Woman Arrested After Firing Bullets Inside

When Michelle Wagner heard the first loud pop, she thought something in her refrigerator had exploded.

But a short time later, she found a bullet lodged in her cabinet door and two bullets in her kitchen wall.

Coeur d’Alene Police arrested a 60-year-old woman Tuesday after she fired almost 20 bullets in her apartment.

Winifred R. Bymaster told officers that she fired her gun because her neighbors were “shooting laser beams” and “high energy voltage” at her, according to a police report.

Wagner and Bymaster live in neighboring apartments.

Bymaster also told police that an intelligence agency had implanted an electronic sensor in her abdomen and a receiver in her head.

Wagner was watching television in her apartment on First Street when she heard the noise.

When she went to see what all the commotion was, she noticed that her wall paneling was splintered.

Then “I noticed this big thing in the cabinet and I realized it was a bullet,” Wagner said. “Then it dawned on me what was going on over there.”

She called police. Wagner said she has had other problems with Bymaster.

Police noted that Bymaster had electrical tape over her ear where she said a receiver had been implanted.

Officers found a .22-caliber gun on a table. Bymaster admitted shooting the gun.

She was arrested on charges of shooting at an occupied dwelling Tuesday.

On Wednesday, Judge Patrick McFadden released her from jail on her own recognizance.

He appointed her a public defender who will have the option of requesting a mental evaluation.

, DataTimes