This one popped up on Eskrima Digest today:
Martial arts expert kills two raiders
Philip Willan in Rome
Monday October 13, 2003
The Guardian
A Chinese martial arts expert was in custody yesterday after turning
the
tables on four burglars armed with knives, killing two of them and
seriously
wounding a third.
The 28-year-old man, known as "the doctor" for his practice of
acupuncture
and traditional Chinese medicine, managed to seize one of the two
knives
carried by his assailants and saw off the entire group with the
ferocity of
his reaction.
Magistrates in the central Italian town of Empoli are now seeking to
establish whether his self-defence constituted an excessive use of
force.
The butchery, worthy of a Quentin Tarantino film, began shortly before
midnight on Friday when the four men knocked at the apartment of a
Chinese
hairdresser in the centre of Empoli.
The hairdresser, her assistant and "the doctor", who operated from the
same
premises, were reportedly overpowered and tied up before the group, all
thought to be in their 20s and 30s, ransacked the apartment.
Disappointed by their meagre booty, the attackers allegedly threatened
to
rape the two women unless they told them where the rest of their money
was
hidden.
At this point the doctor managed to free himself, seize a knife from
one of
the aggressors and deliver a series of lethal stab wounds.
Investigators found the body of one man, who had been stabbed in the
heart,
sprawled on the staircase and another man bleeding to death in the
street
from a wound to his leg. A third man is recovering in hospital from a
punctured lung. The doctor was found crouching in the entrance to the
building with cuts to his shoulder, face and hands.
Investigators are trying to determine whether he inflicted the injuries
while defending himself inside the apartment, or hunted down the
burglars
after they had fled.
Martial arts expert kills two raiders
Philip Willan in Rome
Monday October 13, 2003
The Guardian
A Chinese martial arts expert was in custody yesterday after turning
the
tables on four burglars armed with knives, killing two of them and
seriously
wounding a third.
The 28-year-old man, known as "the doctor" for his practice of
acupuncture
and traditional Chinese medicine, managed to seize one of the two
knives
carried by his assailants and saw off the entire group with the
ferocity of
his reaction.
Magistrates in the central Italian town of Empoli are now seeking to
establish whether his self-defence constituted an excessive use of
force.
The butchery, worthy of a Quentin Tarantino film, began shortly before
midnight on Friday when the four men knocked at the apartment of a
Chinese
hairdresser in the centre of Empoli.
The hairdresser, her assistant and "the doctor", who operated from the
same
premises, were reportedly overpowered and tied up before the group, all
thought to be in their 20s and 30s, ransacked the apartment.
Disappointed by their meagre booty, the attackers allegedly threatened
to
rape the two women unless they told them where the rest of their money
was
hidden.
At this point the doctor managed to free himself, seize a knife from
one of
the aggressors and deliver a series of lethal stab wounds.
Investigators found the body of one man, who had been stabbed in the
heart,
sprawled on the staircase and another man bleeding to death in the
street
from a wound to his leg. A third man is recovering in hospital from a
punctured lung. The doctor was found crouching in the entrance to the
building with cuts to his shoulder, face and hands.
Investigators are trying to determine whether he inflicted the injuries
while defending himself inside the apartment, or hunted down the
burglars
after they had fled.
