Wife: Husband Became Enraged Over Internet Use

Anna Hibbs said every time she hopped on her laptop to search for a new home for the family or for a better job for her husband, she said he accused her of cheating on him.

And while she said her husband, Harry Orion Hibbs Jr., had shoved her before, she never expected to be clutching her 2-year-old daughter on Christmas Eve while looking down the barrel of his handgun.

But she said that’s exactly what happened.

“He threatened to take my life,” Anna Hibbs said in a telephone interview Monday—adding that she prayed that a guardian angel was looking over her and that something would happen to stop him from shooting her.

“It did because the gun malfunctioned and didn’t discharge,” she said.

That’s when she said Harry Hibbs grabbed another gun, and she told him she wanted to leave—that she wanted to go to her parents’ house and that she’d come back the next day to talk to him.

“He said, ‘The only way you’re leaving here is in a body bag,’” Anna Hibbs said.

Her husband also threatened his own life, hitting her in the forehead with the butt of the gun before walking out on the porch of their Eighty-Four home—while Anna Hibbs managed to call her mother, who summoned .

She said police took her husband into custody without incident.

and several counts of assault and remanded to the Washington County Jail on $500,000 straight bond. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 4, according to online court dockets.

Anna Hibbs said that while her family had a difficult time sleeping Saturday, and that she worried her son, who has Asperger’s syndrome, would have problems after experiencing the fight, she cried “good tears” come Christmas morning.

“He said, ‘Santa came—Santa found us!’” Anna Hibbs said.

And she explained she’s speaking out about the matter because she hopes it will help save someone else’s life.

“I want people to see what happens with domestic violence,” she said. “I’m not ashamed.”