Alvarado police officers arrested and charged Shannen Lee Figueroa, 48 years old, of Alvarado, with assault family violence. A witness to the event told police that Figueroa and her husband had been arguing and drinking all day. At one point Figueroa’s husband told her he would stab her in the face at which point she said she would stab him back. The witness told police that Figueroa’s husband then handed her a pocketknife and told her to stab him at which point she grabbed the knife and stabbed him in the shoulder. According to the affidavit, the husband had a look of disbelief that he was stabbed.