Man sentenced for attack on wife

A Spokane man who kidnapped his estranged wife last October and terrorized her with a stun gun and a .22-caliber revolver pleaded guilty Wednesday to reduced charges.

Superior Court Judge Tari Eitzen sentenced Patrick Ray Theodorson, 34, to 63/4 years in prison.

The sentence was the top of Theodorson’s standard range for his plea to one count of first-degree kidnapping and one count of second-degree assault.

Theodorson had been charged with two counts of first-degree kidnapping, two counts of second-degree assault, one count of second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm and one count of harassment.

Theodorson invited his wife, Donna M. Theodorson, 25, to his home at 634 W. Buckeye to go over paperwork in their pending divorce. When she arrived shortly after midnight on Oct. 14, he approached his wife as if to hug her, but suddenly jolted her chest with a stun gun.

She said she thought she had been stabbed. Then Theodorson zapped her so many times on her chest, underarm and torso that she collapsed to the floor, believing she was having a heart attack.

Theodorson then beat his wife on her face and head while holding her to the floor and telling her he was going to kill her. She said he suddenly produced a pistol, rolled her onto her stomach and handcuffed her hands behind her back.

He continued to manhandle and terrorize her with threats of rape and death. Among other things, he made her crawl on her knees and led her to believe he intended to handcuff her to a bolt in the floor.

Eventually, he freed her hands and told her he intended to shoot both of them and make it look as though she did it.

He forced her to hold the gun so it would have her fingerprints. With his hand over hers, he made her pull the trigger several times until the revolver finally fired a round into his living room floor.

Then Theodorson pushed his wife out the front door and ordered her to run. She ran home, and a friend of hers called 911.

About 45 minutes later, Theodorson called police to claim his wife had taken a shot at him. The call was assigned to an officer who had already seen Donna Theodorson’s stun-gun burns and her bruised and swollen eye.