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.

She said when she turned towards her husband, she “was spontaneously shot in the chest,” the report states. She told detectives her husband was “in a state of shock and immediately called 911.”

“The victim stated her and (Martinez) have a healthy relationship and there is no domestic violence history,” an MSPD investigator wrote. “The victim stated she believes the incident was an accident.”

Police arrested Martinez on charges of culpable negligence and improper exhibition of a firearm.

He appeared in Miami-Dade bond court on Monday afternoon alongside his attorney, Matthew Ladd. His wife eventually joined in remotely from her hospital room at JMH.

“She hates that her husband got arrested for this,” Ladd said of Martinez’s wife.

Martinez’s wife told the court that she is not afraid of her husband and asked that the judge not issue a stay-away order.

Judge Maria Espinosa Dennis set Martinez’s bond at $3,000 and ordered he have no drugs, nor firearms, weapons or ammunition.

As of Monday afternoon, he remained in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

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