A 36-year-old Steele woman whose four children were in the house when she allegedly fired a gun in her bedroom early Thursday morning after threatening to hurt her husband and herself was arrested and taken to Burleigh County's jail, said Steele Police Chief David Feland.

Kidder County State's Attorney Jerod Tufte filed two charges Thursday against the woman, Ingrid Anderson:reckless endangerment, a Class C felony, and discharge of a firearm within a city, a Class B misdemeanor.

Feland said Anderson was not pointing the gun in her husband's direction. He said witnesses told police that Anderson, while in her bedroom, used her own handgun, a 9mm, to fire one shot in a northerly direction while her husband was in another room east of the bedroom.

The bullet went through the wall and exited the house, Feland said.

Feland said the 26-year-old husband, because of the couple's marital problems, hasn't been living in the house, but the couple had been in Dawson together earlier in the evening for a dart competition and had returned to the house together.

He said an argument ensued, and the firing of the pistol was reported to have occurred at 12:04 a.m.

Steele police were at the residence about five minutes after receiving a 911 call from the husband, but Ingrid Anderson was no longer there.

Feland said the husband, after talking to police, took his child, a baby, and left the residence.

The three other children - a teenager and two children under the age 10 of different parentage - were put into the care of the North Dakota Department of Social Services.

Police searched for Anderson, but she was arrested at about 2 a.m. after she returned to her home.

(Reach reporter Virginia Grantier at 250-8254 or at virginia.grantier@bismarcktribune.com.)