Baltimore police say a Johns Hopkins University medical student armed with a samurai sword killed an intruder in his garage.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says campus police and an off-duty city officer responding to a call for a suspicious person heard screams to call police around 1:20 a.m. Tuesday.
Guglielmi says the student told the man he found in his garage to leave and the man accosted him. That’s when Guglielmi says the student defended himself, cutting off the man’s hand and causing a severe laceration to his upper body…
September 15th, 2009 at 11:59AM
Of course I had to read about this on UD and not hear about it from my freshman at Hopkins. I should have let him go off to school with that machete he got at WalMart for camping.
September 15th, 2009 at 1:13PM
LOL, Nora.
September 15th, 2009 at 5:37PM
Here is another difference between a red state and blue state, UD: there, according to Baltimore Sun, "The city state’s attorney’s office will determine whether to press charges."
Here, "The district attorney’s office will determine whether to give the sword-wielder the keys to the city or a parade."
September 15th, 2009 at 6:29PM
"Here is another difference between a red state and blue state….Here, "The district attorney’s office will determine whether to give the sword-wielder the keys to the city or a parade."
I must disagree, here in my red state the intruder would be the victim of kinetic lead poisoning, not a sword slash.
September 16th, 2009 at 8:44PM
We’ll be in San Francisco over the weekend. Will not miss exhibit at the Asian Museum: Lords of the Samurai.
September 20th, 2009 at 10:32PM
Cutting of a habitual thief’s hand may be business as usual in Riyadh, but leaving him to bleed to death is very Baltimore.