Knife Attacks in the News.

[arnisador]

These are stories on knife attacks, but are not necessarily related to the FMA.

RUSSIA: 8 WOUNDED IN ATTACK ON MOSCOW SYNAGOGUE (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/12/international/12briefs.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1137433067-FEyKw3ZMyid9jMVDISjAww)

A man wounds 8 people with a hunting knife in a hate crime in Russia, before being wrestled to the ground.

Wife cleared in slay after butt insult (http://nydailynews.com/front/story/327378p-279820c.html)

A domestic violence incident that ended in a man's death. "Prosecutors argued the blade wound was no accident because it penetrated 6 inches deep in a downward motion."


Man charged with officer's murder (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2666693.stm)

British police officer killed by a knife. See this thread (http://www.martialtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5629) on MartialTalk for more details.

[arnisador]

The Albuquerque Journal reports the Sunday arrest of a man at the U. of N.M. Hospital after he chased another man with what is described as a "pocket knife" and, later, as a "butterfly knife" and finally as a "folding knife". I assume this is a balisong, but I don't know--is there another type of folding pocket knife known as a Butterfly knife?

An older story (http://www.abqjournal.com/north/340559north_news04-19-05.htm) (registration required) from 19 April 2005 always speaks of a butterfly knife being used, this time in a drug-related non-fatal stabbing.

[arnisador]

Several recent stories in Albuquerque about knives being used in carjackings, e.g. this story (http://www.abqjournal.com/west/423501west_news01-10-06.htm) (reg. reqd.) from this month. One case involved a good Samaritan who stopped to help someone, only to be robbed and carjacked at knifepoint. He lost $1000 in golf clubs as part of it.

Another story (from Dec. 2004) involving a knife and a car is here (http://www.abqjournal.com/riorancho/277911west_news12-23-04.htm) (reg. reqd.):


Arrest Made In Armed Robbery

Casey Jones, 31, of the 1200 block of Third Street NW was arrested Tuesday on charges of armed robbery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery after he held a knife to the back of a man's head and stole his wallet, according to a criminal complaint.
The complaint says:
At about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jones approached a man sitting in his car on Adams NE. The man said he was taking his lunch break in his car.
The man said Jones put a knife to his head and demanded his wallet. The man gave Jones his wallet which had about $80 and several credit cards in it. Jones got into a silver SUV with another man and two women.
A short time after Albuquerque Police Department put out a call to locate the SUV, officers saw Jones running in the area where the vehicle was spotted.
According to police, when officers told Jones to get on the ground, he yelled back that he did not rob anyone and he was running because he was going to get jumped.
Jones said he was with the women because they wanted him to go with them while they "picked up guys for money." However, Jones said he did not know the full names of the other people.
Jones said they used the money to buy crack and the man's credit cards to buy gas for the SUV they were driving.
Jones is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center on a $27,500 cash or surety bond.

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Fla. Teen Dies After Sword Falls on Him (http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=ns-tos-news-h-05&floc=FF-APO-PLS&idq=/ff/story/0001/20060307/1046952669.htm%5D)


BRANDON, Fla. (AP) - A teenager who kept a 29-inch sword displayed on his bedroom wall has died after the weapon fell and slashed his shoulder and neck, authorities said.

Joshua Hershberger, 15, was in his bedroom with two younger siblings Monday night when a ball they were bouncing knocked the sword off the wall, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said.

[arnisador]

Spring Breaker Stabbed 7 Times At Club (http://www.wesh.com/news/8187024/detail.html)


Police said there was an argument, and that's when Brown pulled out a 4-inch pocketknife and stabbed Conteno seven times in the upper chest. An employee at the club tried to break things up and was cut on the shoulder while taking the knife away from Brown, who was cut on the hand.

Attempted carjacking thwarted as victims fight back (http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/121065.php)



Two South Tucson co-workers fought off an armed robber Monday morning, using their belts to defend themselves, police said.

[...]

Martinez pulled off his belt to try to defend himself and his friend. A brief struggle ensued and the robber stabbed Arteaga under his arm, Muñoz said.

“I guess he didn’t expect them to be fighting back,” Muñoz said, because the robber then ran toward his car, which he had left half a block away.
One of the victims called police from a cell phone and the two men chased after the would-be robber, intending to capture him for police.

At one point, Martinez grabbed the arm that was holding the knife and swung his belt at the robber, trying to force him to drop the knife, but he got away again, Muñoz said.

Martinez fell and the robber came at him with the knife, but Arteaga then took off his belt and used it to defend his friend, he said.

[ryangruhn]

Here is one that happened in my town last month:

Student in critical condition after stabbing


By Krystle Kopacz
Collegian Staff Writer
A Penn State student is in critical condition after he was stabbed in the heart early Friday morning at Club Love, 129 1/2 S. Pugh St.

Doctors at Mount Nittany Medical Center performed open-heart massage on Michael Donahue, 22, of Drums, Pa., for more than an hour early Friday morning. According to court documents, a doctor who performed emergency surgery on Donahue told the State College Police Department “he didn’t know why Donahue was still alive.”

State College Police Sgt. Mark Argiro said he believes doctors are afraid to move Donahue to a special care facility because of his condition.

Police said Josephy Ventura, 27, of East Prospect Avenue, allegedly stabbed Donahue with a 7-inch, wood-handle kitchen knife with a 3-inch blade inside Club Love. Ventura was restrained by bar staff until taken into police custody, according to court documents. He was charged and committed to Centre County Prison in lieu of $3 million bail.

Police said there is no evidence to suspect that Ventura and Donahue knew each other prior to the stabbing.

State College Police Sgt. John Gardner said police are still unsure of the events that led up to the 1:30 a.m. stabbing. Donahue’s roommate, Brandon Lawson, told police he saw Donahue attempt to break up a fight when he was stabbed.

According to court documents, Ventura was upset about an incident in which his girlfriend, a Penn State student, was allegedly assaulted earlier in the night. Police did not indicate that Donahue was linked to the incident.

According to court documents, State College Police Det. Bill Wagner reviewed the surveillance tape from inside the bar and observed Ventura “making a thrusting motion with his hand” toward Donahue’s chest.

When interviewed at about 3:30 a.m. Friday, Ventura told police he didn’t stab anyone. Police searched Ventura’s jacket and found the knife with blood on it, which Ventura told police was his own, according to court documents.

Ventura is charged with criminal attempt – a third degree murder charge – aggravated assault, simple assault, possessing instruments of crime and recklessly endangering another person. His preliminary hearing is slated for Wednesday at the Centre County Courthouse.

Police ask that anyone who may have witnessed the incident or has related information to contact the State College Police Department at 814-234-7150 or Det. Ralph Ralston at 814-278-4742.

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The victim of a State College stabbing died Sunday evening, two days after he was knifed in the chest.
Michael F. Donahue, a 22-year-old Penn State student from Luzerne County, was stabbed in the heart early Friday at Club Love, 129 1/2 S. Pugh St. He had since been undergoing treatment in Mount Nittany Medical Center's intensive-care unit.
His condition never stabilized.
Donahue's death raises the possibility of more serious charges against the alleged assailant, Josephy A. Ventura.
Centre County District Attornney Michael Madeira said Sunday that homicide charges of some form will likely be filed.
Ventura, 27, of State College, is already facing charges of attempted murder, assault and lesser crimes in connection with the incident. If this becomes a homicide case, it would be the second in the Centre Region since 2002.
Authorities are holding Ventura at the Centre County Correctional Facility in lieu of $3 million bail.
Donahue, who was from Drums in northeastern Pennsylvania, was a junior studying crime, law and justice, according to his personal Web site. On it, he wrote that he wanted to become "some type of law enforcement agent."
Officers handling the case could not be reached for comment Sunday night.
Last week, police said that Donahue and Ventura appeared to have been involved in an altercation with at least one other man. A police investigation is continuing.
They're asking anyone who witnessed the altercation to call them at 234-7150 or 278-4742.

[arnisador]

In this article (http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30F10FF3B5B0C7B8EDDAD0894DE4044 82) (probably a free preview only by now), the NY Times analyzes New York City homicides for the year 2005. A few interesting facts and quotes:

- The assailant had a criminal record more than 90% of the time; the victim, more than 50% of the time.
- "If the average New Yorker is concerned about being murdered in a random crime the odds of that happening are really remote" a deputy police commissioner said.
- Homicides wherein the victim did not know the attacker beforehand are more frequent at nearly 25%, despite the fact that murders in NYC are down overall. A sociologist said: "It's still characteristically an acquaintance event. But the stranger homicides are now nontrivial."
- Assailants ranged in age from 9 to 88; victims, from infancy to 91.
- The "deadliest hour" was from 1AM to 2AM, and most events took place outdoors.
- Most assailants were men (93%); Caucasians and Asians were disproportionately represented among the victims (much fewer than would be expected if victims were selected at random).
- One 2005 death counted in the statistics was the result of a 1975 shooting.
- Shooting was the most common method (roughly two-thirds).

[arnisador]

Teen held in knife rampage; 27 hurt

(http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0605280247may28,1,3030716.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed)A knife attack in Berlin, in which one person injured 27 others (another story said 28).

German teen injures 27 in Berlin knifing spree (http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/05/28/2003310419)

Another article concerning the same story. "A 16-year-old mingled with the crowd leaving a sound-and-light show and then began to randomly slash and stab people in a narrow street" says the subtitle.

[arnisador]

Former Marine fights off five robbers, killing one
(http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4963532)


Atlanta police say a former Marine turned the tables on his attackers - killing one and wounding another with a knife as they tried to rob him.

Detective Danny Stephens says Thomas Autry was walking to his girlfriend's home from his job waiting tables at a restaurant in Midtown Atlanta around 11pm Monday when five people in a car approached him.

Autry began running down the street yelling for help as four people in the car got out and chased him. Stephens says one of the attackers had a shotgun and another had a pistol.

The suspects eventually caught up with Autry. But Autry, who managed to pull a knife out of his backpack, kicked the shotgun out of one of the attacker's hands.


This is a great self-defense story, but a sad story about America today. One of the attackers whom he was able to use his weapon against was a pregnant teenage girl. She is the one who did not survive.

[arnisador]

Slashed at a subway station (http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nysaw074809093jul07,0,5382123.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines)



A postal worker catching the subway to work in Manhattan early yesterday was suddenly and savagely attacked by an emotionally disturbed ex-convict who grabbed two idle power saws on the platform and sliced open his chest, officials and the victim said.

[...]

Before he crossed through the turnstile, Steinberg said he saw a man wielding two buzzing Sawzall power saws - used to tear through wood and concrete - and several workers running scared on the platform.

One police source described Williams' swinging motions as "shadow boxing,"

[...]

Steinberg said that no one around him - including several privately employed electricians who ran away from the attacker - bothered to help.

"I begged for someone to call an ambulance and to get this guy off of me," he said.

Officials said Williams grabbed the battery-powered saws from a table on the platform set up by a subcontractor working at the station.

Before fleeing with the saws, Williams allegedly robbed Steinberg of $200 in cash and credit cards, police said. He dumped the saws in an above-ground trash can, disappearing a block east on Broadway.

Within two hours, Williams struck again, police said, punching a 29-year-old man who was walking his dog at West 86th Street and West End Avenue, police said. That victim called police, who drove around the neighborhood with him until Williams was spotted 10 minutes later, with blood on his white T-shirt, at East 93rd Street and Broadway, police said.

You never know what you're going to face out there.

[arnisador]

In the Wall Street Journal article I discussed here (http://www.fmatalk.com/showthread.php?t=802), there is a story of Nicholas Nobella, 25, who took a four-hour tactical folder course at a Calif. knife shop. Then, several months later, "a melee...broke out" at a bachelorette party that had been joined by the bachelor party, and he used his tactical knife against Edward Pedrosa, a male stripper, killing the man. Mr. Nobella's lawyer has stated that he acted in self-defense.

The Thomas Autry case from Atlanta, mentioned earlier in this thread, is also discussed in the story, where it is noted that he used a 2 inch blade.

[arnisador]

Reports: Son kills Malay princess

(http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/25/malaysia.princess.ap/)


A Malaysian princess was stabbed to death by her son as she tried to stop him from attacking her husband, news reports said Tuesday.

[...]The woman's son, Tunku Rizal Shahzan, 21, ran at his 74-year-old father wielding a screwdriver, the reports said. Puteri Kamariah intervened and was stabbed in the ensuing struggle.


The father, Tunku Ismail Tunku Sulaiman, was hospitalized with slash wounds to the stomach



We often think of a screwdriver as being primarily a stabbing weapon, but in this case the surviving victim was treated for slash, not stab, wounds. Of course, the woman who stabbed suffered a fatal injury.

[blindside]

Ouch, a cleaver....
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/278905_cleaver26ww.html



Man attacks parents with meat cleaver
By HECTOR CASTRO (hectorcastro@seattlepi.com)
P-I REPORTER
Without any apparent provocation, a Seattle man suddenly attacked his family with a meat cleaver, leaving his parents with gaping wounds to their arms.
The two were taken to Harborview Medical Center for treatment and their son booked into the King County Jail for investigation of domestic violence assault.
The suspect's brother told police the family had just finished dinner and were relaxing in the living room of their Beacon Hill home in the 6800 block of Beacon Avenue South about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday when the 21-year-old brother walked in carrying the meat cleaver.
The man's 47-year-old mother asked him why had the knife, but instead of responding, the man swung the meat cleaver at his older brother, cutting him on the neck. The man's mother tried to take the knife away from her son, and was cut in the struggle.
She, her other son, his wife and their infant son ran for a rear bedroom to escape the man with the meat cleaver.
The armed man's father then walked into the house, and he, too, was struck with the meat cleaver. When police arrived, they were met by one of the bleeding victims. More officers arrived and found the son in the kitchen, holding the meat cleaver.
The man ignored orders to drop the knife and was shot and temporarily disabled with a Taser, then taken into custody, police said.
The conditions of those injured were not released and there was no information on a motive for the sudden attack.

[kabaroan]

The Albuquerque Journal reports the Sunday arrest of a man at the U. of N.M. Hospital after he chased another man with what is described as a "pocket knife" and, later, as a "butterfly knife" and finally as a "folding knife". I assume this is a balisong, but I don't know--is there another type of folding pocket knife known as a Butterfly knife?

An older story (http://www.abqjournal.com/north/340559north_news04-19-05.htm) (registration required) from 19 April 2005 always speaks of a butterfly knife being used, this time in a drug-related non-fatal stabbing.

There is the Pilipino balisong but there is also a "parachute" knife used by paratroopers. The handles arc to open and close the knife; I think Smith and Wesson manufacture one.

[arnisador]

Hmm, I don't think I know that one. Was this a WWII paratrooper thing, or more recent?

[arnisador]

Georgia Rape Victim Fatally Stabs Attacker to Protect Daughter

(http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227896,00.html)


A woman who was raped and beaten by an old acquaintance fought back, stabbing her attacker to death when he threatened to rape her 6-year-old daughter.

[Carol]

Georgia Rape Victim Fatally Stabs Attacker to Protect Daughter

(http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227896,00.html)

At one point her attacker through a pot of boiling tea on her.

She's in the hospital in serious condition.

Fingers crossed for her and her daughter.

[arnisador]

Achieving Success After Struggling With Life’s Pitfalls (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/nyregion/08Neediest.html)



Donnell once saw a boy badly beaten and left for dead in the schoolyard. After that he started carrying a box knife for protection. One day at school he encountered a gang member who demanded his coat. He resisted but did not take out his knife, and the back of his coat was slashed by the gang member. When the police arrived, the only weapon found was the unused knife in Donnell’s coat pocket. He — not the teenager who started the fight — was sent to juvenile detention.


After three days he was released but was put on a year’s probation.

[arnisador]

Naked man arrested with concealed weapon (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/15924837.htm)



A naked man was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon after telling police he had a screwdriver in his buttocks.

The man was lying on a tree stump masturbating beside a nature path near the El Cerrito Bay Area Rapid Transit station Thursday, police said.


John Sheehan, 33, of Pittsburg was initially arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure. But when asked if he was carrying anything police should know about, Sheehan mentioned the tool, said El Cerrito Detective Cpl. Don Horgan.


``You can't get much more concealed than that,'' Horgan said.
Officers drew their weapons and firefighters were called to the scene, but Sheehan removed a 6-inch metal awl wrapped in black electrical tape without incident.


Sheehan, who was paroled from state prison last week, was then booked into the county jail in Martinez on suspicion of parole violations, indecent exposure and one felony count of possessing a concealed weapon.


``When you're talking about an awl or an ice pick and you're dealing with somebody who's fresh out of prison, it's a weapon. That's a stabbing instrument,'' Horgan said.


He noted that the rear end is a common hiding place for weapons being smuggled into prison.


Well, I guess you never know where a weapon will be concealed.

[arnisador]

Man Accused of Stabbing in PB&J Prank (http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/11/15/ap3178715.html)


A foundry worker angered about someone putting motor oil on his peanut butter and jelly sandwich was stabbed by another employee he accused of the prank - the wrong man, it turned out, police said.


Jeremy Gordon, 22, of Veedersburg was stabbed twice in his lower leg, said Fountain County Sheriff Robert Bass. Gordon thought that the suspect in the stabbing, Bradley McManomy, 27, of Veedersburg, had put the oil on his sandwich, but it was someone else, police said.


"It wasn't even the right guy," Bass said.


Gordon confronted McManomy on Tuesday in a bathroom of the Fountain Foundry Corp., in Veedersburg, 30 miles southwest of Lafayette, Bass said.
McManomy used a knife with a 3- to 4-inch blade to stab Gordon, Bass said.


McManomy was arrested on suspicion of battery with a deadly weapon. He was being held at the Fountain County Jail on $15,000 bond.
Gordon was treated at St. Clare Medical Center in Crawfordsville and released.


Bass said charges might also be filed against Gordon for starting the fight.
"This is an example of how just a practical joke could turn bad," Bass said.
I have to wonder if it's also an example of a case where if the person hadn't been carrying a knife, no one would have been seriously injured. However, it does say the person stabbed may be charged with starting the fight, so perhaps we'll eventually learn that it was legitimate self-defense.

[arnisador]

Short supply invites crime (http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/nation/16043738.htm)

Robbery suspect critically hurt in Indiana (http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/nation/16043738.htm)



Two Indiana men fought off armed robbers early Friday after waiting in line for about 36 hours to buy the unit, police said.


Andrew Templeton, 20, and David Wiggins, 28, both of Sullivan, each bought a console at a Wal-Mart about 30 miles north in Terre Haute. They were followed home by two teenagers and assaulted when they began to unpack the car, Sullivan Police Chief David Story said.


Police say Dylan Moss, 19, of West Terre Haute, and Dustin Fagg, 19, of Terre Haute, were carrying a chain and tire iron as they approached Templeton and Wiggins. Moss and Fagg told the pair to give them the consoles, Story said.


“The whole purpose of the robbery was to get the PlayStations,” Story said.


A fight broke out. Wiggins’ nose was broken, and Moss was stabbed, police said. Moss was listed in critical condition after undergoing surgery at Union Hospital in Terre Haute, officials said.


Prosecutor Bob Springer said he plans to charge Moss and Fagg with felony robbery. No arrests were made as of Friday afternoon.


(Another such story is here (http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_4684149).) In the story in the Terre Haute paper, it stated that asthe would-be robbers approached the men while they were unloading their car, "Wiggins grabbed a knife as a precaution" (it doesn't say from where).

[arnisador]

Alexandria man fatally shot by Anderson officer (http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070413/NEWS01/704130321)



City police shot and killed an Alexandria man who allegedly pulled "a knife that strongly resembles a handgun" on them late Wednesday, an Anderson Police Department spokesman said.

[arnisador]

Paris' brother 'mugged at knifepoint' (http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=52010&in_page_id=7)
PARIS' BROTHER MUGGED HERE (http://www.nypost.com/seven/06062007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm)




"An hour later, two security guards from Stereo were driving by Penn Station on their way home and they saw Barron [Hilton] and his friends. Then they saw two muggers confronting the group, and they all got out. One had a knife and was trying to get money out of the kids.


"One guy had Barron at knifepoint, and the guards got out and chased away the guy with the knife. The attackers didn't get any money," said the witness.


"Eventually Barron and his friends all piled into a cab." The insider added that the guards recognized Barron because "he tries to get into Stereo all the time."

[arnisador]

Teen defends PS3 with samurai sword (http://www.psu.com/node/11633)


Damian and Deanne Fernandez were at home on an uneventful day in their northwest Miami-Dade County home, with their parents at work, when two men decided to break into their home. After the men went to the mother's room and grabbed several pieces of jewelry, they went to Damian's room to grab what they were truly after - a PlayStation 3.

Damain, a brown belt in Karate, was apparently more prepared than the burglar.

"Once I saw him take off running back, I jumped off my (bunk) bed and I grabbed my sword… and I just waited for him," he said.

After supposedly striking him in the chest with the sword the burglar "freaked out," according to Damian.

Damian proceeded to chase him down the street with his samurai sword until the police arrived. A K-9 officer found the burglar located behind a neighbor's palm tree, while the second burglar got away.

Javier Cotera, 21, was arrested and is now due to appear in court next week facing three felony charges.

[arnisador]

Hero emerges: Former soldier stepped up when he saw lives in danger (http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,680194429,00.html)


Eric Fullerton says he didn't feel his skin being sliced when Curtis Allgier cut his throat, but he did feel the cold steel of the serrated knife and hear his flesh ripping.

Fullerton, a 59-year-old truck driver, was cut several times along the right side of his throat while struggling with Allgier, 27, for control of a pistol.

The fight took place Monday morning after Allgier attempted to take patrons and employees hostage inside a Salt Lake City Arby's restaurant, Fullerton said Tuesday.

[...]

During the struggle, Allgier tried to stop Fullerton by pointing the gun at him and also grabbed a serrated knife and sliced Fullerton's throat, he said.

Fullerton said he barely noticed the slashes from the knife because he was focused on using the strength of his hands to take control of the gun.

Once he secured the weapon, Fullerton aimed it at Allgier. Moments later, police stormed the Redwood Road Arby's and arrested Allgier.

[arnisador]

Man with machete faces assorted charges (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070630/LOCAL/706300496)


A Greenwood man who police say tried to attack officers with a machete is facing charges of domestic battery, battery, and resisting and interfering with law enforcement.

[arnisador]

Knife attack injures toddler instead (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07187/799782-100.stm)



A man trying to stab a man in a car ended up slashing the toddler seated next to the intended victim, police said.

James Jamele Jackson, 26, was charged with aggravated assault and other crimes for the attack that injured 15-month-old Jayla Orzechowski yesterday. Erie police were still searching for Mr. Jackson today.


Mr. Jackson was trying to stab Marcus Gray, who had gotten out of the car to confront Mr. Jackson, police said. Mr. Gray retreated before Mr. Jackson ran to the car and lunged through the window with the knife, police said.


Suspect in Erie Baby Stabbing Turns Self In (http://www.wicu12.com/news/index.vnss?newsid=3612)

[franci1911]

Slashed at a subway station (http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nysaw074809093jul07,0,5382123.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines)




You never know what you're going to face out there.



Well, you may not know what you're going to face ou there. But you should expect the worst especially in a big city like New York. I am from New York, so I know from what I speak. Train like you expect the worse case scenerio and you will be less likely to be a victum. You would be more aware without being parinoid and the perp would most likely move on to someone else.

In the shooting world we have a saying, "Are you a carnvore or a grazer." In other words keep your head up, eyes open and pay attention to your surroundings.

[arnisador]

Policeman faces death... (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=061_1186316530)


The court was told PC Croft was part of a team of two who attended Paignton Esplanade in August last year after reports that Lord had been knocked over by cyclists taking part in a race. Witnesses said he was carrying a Samurai sword.

The two policeman quickly confirmed that Lord had the weapon and arrested the 22-year-old student, of no fixed abode.

The officers handcuffed the suspect and conducted a brief search before transporting him to Paignton police station.

It was in the tiny custody room, which measures just 4ft by 2ft, that PC Croft began to carry out a more thorough search. He removed the handcuffs, demanding that Lord place his hands on the counter.

But while he was searching Lord's pockets, the offender swiftly drew the blade from his waistband and swung around at the officer.

Speaking after the hearing, PC Croft, 42, said the attack happened at "bullet" speed.

He added: "Everything was in slow motion.

"My training teaches me to move back in a situation like that, but because of the confined space, I didn't have that option.

"You make those split-second risk assessments, and this time I was lucky."

[arnisador]

Well, you may not know what you're going to face ou there. But you should expect the worst especially in a big city like New York. I am from New York, so I know from what I speak. Train like you expect the worse case scenerio and you will be less likely to be a victum. You would be more aware without being parinoid and the perp would most likely move on to someone else.

In the shooting world we have a saying, "Are you a carnvore or a grazer." In other words keep your head up, eyes open and pay attention to your surroundings.

Excellent advice. So many practice only physical techniques for self-defense, when they'd get more net benefit from taking advice like this to heart.

[arnisador]

3 men killed in separate incidents (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007708250538)
After 911 call, police shoot a man armed with machete; 2 others shot in apparent robberies, police say (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007708250538)


A man wielding a machete was shot to death by police early Saturday on the Near Southside

Machete-related incidents certainly appear to be on the upswing.

[blindside]

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/border/202543


PHOENIX — A pregnant woman fended off a thief with a pocketknife in Gilbert and later said the man had "messed with the wrong girl."
Tracy Mann, 21, who said she is three months pregnant, was walking home from work at about 12:40 a.m. Thursday when she spotted a truck parked with its door open and no one inside.
Mann became suspicious and pulled out her pocketknife.

That's when a man appeared and asked Mann for a cigarette and then to borrow her cell phone. Mann said she didn't answer him either time and kept walking, but had flipped open the knife's blade.
The man then grabbed her purse and started pulling it along with Mann.
Mann fought back with the knife. "He was just tugging me and the purse, and I just started slashing at him," she said.
She said she didn't stop slashing until the man let her go and ran away. Mann followed him up an embankment of rocks to a waiting truck so she could write down the license plate number.

Mesa police found the truck a short time later in Mesa and arrested Filemon Del Hoyo, 18, Abel Lorenzo Reyes, 18, and Isidro Mendoza, 22, all of Mesa. Police say Del Hoyo was the one who tried to grab Mann's purse. He was taken to a hospital and had surgery for knife wounds. He faces attempted-robbery charges, and Reyes and Mendoza face charges of conspiracy to commit robbery. Del Hoyo, an illegal immigrant, had been arrested last month on charges of third-degree burglary and underage drinking. He was sentenced to probation and was voluntarily removed from the country on Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Vinnie Picard said. That means Del Hoyo illegally re-entered the country between Monday and Thursday. Del Hoyo was discharged from the hospital Friday afternoon, but it was unclear if he was in custody.
Reyes and Mendoza were being held in Maricopa County jail.
Gilbert police spokesman Lt. Eric Shuhandler praised Mann's ability to defend herself. "Good for her for being aware of her surroundings and not becoming a victim," he said.

Mann credited growing up in Chicago for being tough. She said she always carries her pocketknife "because you just never know."

[arnisador]

Woman stabs teen on a dare (http://www.tribstar.com/local/local_story_288232312.html)


A Clay County woman was behind bars Monday after allegedly stabbing someone she didn’t even know — on a dare — in a Brazil parking lot Sunday evening.
[...]
The victim had been planning to go to the Movie Gallery at Forest Park Plaza when he saw friends in the parking lot. He was talking to the friends when he was stabbed, said Brazil Police Chief Terry Harrison.

“That’s when this girl walked over and just stabbed him in the arm and took off,” Harrison said.

“[The victim] really didn’t see it. It was just a real quick motion and then he looked and saw his arm was bleeding,” he said.

The victim did not know the suspect in the case and apparently the suspect did not know the victim, according to the media statement.

[arnisador]

Police attacked with machetes, bricks (http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,22679245-421,00.html)



MACHETES, broken bottles, spears, petrol and bricks have been used in a number of violent attacks against police at Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.

[arnisador]

Self-defense claim in dragging death (http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=221361)

Suspect will face charges (http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=221361)



A Newman Lake man claimed through his attorney Monday that he was defending himself and others during a wilderness confrontation that ended with the dragging death of an Eastern Washington University student.

But Pend Oreille County District Court Judge Philip Van de Veer found probable cause to hold Wendell C. Sinn Jr., 45, on suspicion of second-degree murder or first-degree manslaughter in connection with the Saturday night death of Jerid Sturman-Camyn, a 20-year-old martial arts enthusiast who reportedly had threatened several campers with an ax.



"This man was operating in defense of himself and others," [his attorney] said without elaborating.

Meanwhile, authorities revealed Monday that the victim was dragged nearly 13 miles after Sinn allegedly attached a rope to a pickup trailer hitch and looped the other end around Sturman-Camyn's neck.

Sheriff Jerry Weeks said the pickup driver – Sinn's 17-year-old son, Justin Daniel Sinn – apparently was unaware that Sturman-Camyn was roped behind the truck when the elder Sinn told the youth to drive away.

The Sheriff's Office said some of the eight people at a hunting camp near Ione, Wash., where the violence began said Sturman-Camyn, who was a mixed martial arts fighter, lost his temper, armed himself with an ax and threatened others at the camp.


An interesting notion of self-defense.

[arnisador]

Police: Alaska man killed 2, injured 3 in machete, gun attacks (http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/12/04/machete.killing.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest)



According to an affidavit by police Detective Steve Hill, Rogers used a machete to kill his 51-year-old father, Christopher E. Rogers Sr., and seriously injure his father's 55-year-old girlfriend, Elann Moren, early Sunday in Palmer, about 40 miles north of Anchorage.


Rogers traveled to Anchorage after the attack in his father's truck. He took a .357 revolver and ammunition from the vehicle, the affidavit said. Once there, Rogers abandoned the truck and went in search of another vehicle, it said.

[arnisador]

Stabbed Man Fights Back, Killing One Attacker Fourth Attacker Still at Large (http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=5455789&version=5&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1)


Police say a New York City transit worker heading home from his job has turned the tables on four men who mugged and stabbed him. They say he seized his attackers' knife and plunged it into two of them, killing one.



Transit worker fights back at 4 attackers, fatally stabbing one (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/01/11/2008-01-11_transit_worker_fights_back_at_4_attacker.html)


A subway conductor who stabbed a mugger more than a decade ago fought off three attackers in a bloody Harlem knife fight Friday that left a good Samaritan dead, police said.


The good Samaritan, 28-year-old Flonarza Byas, waded into the midnight free-for-all not knowing who needed help, police sources said.


Byas was stabbed nine times and fatally wounded at W. 139th St. and St. Nicholas Ave.


"He didn't know who was the good guy or who was the bad guys," a police source said.

Investigators said it's possible that off-duty conductor Maurice Parks - a small but muscular martial arts expert - and the three thugs attempting to rob him all turned on Byas during the chaos because no one knew who he was.

[arnisador]

3 stabbed as students disable attacker at Pa. school (http://www.timesleader.com/news/ap?articleID=330706)


Students at a junior/senior high school jumped on a 13-year-old classmate who had armed himself with a propane torch and slashed a girl with a knife Wednesday morning, momentarily disabling him before he was subdued by school officials.


Two other students also suffered minor stab wounds.


The suspect at Antietam Middle-Senior High School, about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia, had brought numerous other knives and explosive materials to school, police said. The eighth-grader was taken into custody after school officials disarmed him.

[arnisador]

Indy man gets 65 years for murder of disabled woman (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080119/LOCAL/301190004/-1/LOCAL17)


The 36-year-old woman, a paraplegic, was lying in a bed in the basement of Harper’s mother’s home when he stabbed Kendall with a butterfly knife — a knife with two handles that fold to cover the blade — on Jan. 14, 2007.

I'm surprised how many news hits there are for "butterfly knife" (though I suspect many of them misuse the term).

Man fined for carrying knife (http://www.thisischeshire.co.uk/display.var.1960571.0.man_fined_for_carrying_knife .php)


A RUDHEATH man found carrying an offensive weapon in his car has been sentenced.


Mathew Gleave, of Brook Lane, admitted having the double bladed butterfly knife, but said he had taken it to work to sharpen and simply forgot to take it out of his car.


Lawrence Bestow, prosecuting, told the hearing at Vale Royal Magistrates' Court on Thursday that Gleave's car was pulled over in Parkfield Road and searched because police suspected he was using drugs.


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This was not the case but they did find the knife with a three inch blade in the 18-year-old's vehicle.


Chris Johnson, defending, said the knife was similar to a pen knife and was only classed as offensive because the blades lock when they open.
He added that Gleave used the blade to cut through plastic straps around packaging at his workplace.

[arnisador]

Meet the boy who didn’t duck (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/24156848/)

Luckily, the butter knife that became lodged in his head did not pierce skull (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/24156848/)



In the history of weaponry, the dull-edged butter knife hasn’t ranked high on the list of weapons of choice. But don’t tell that to Tyler Hemmert.

The 11-year-old Vancouver boy needed doctors to remove a butter knife from his head on Sunday. He says he and friend Nate Leach were sitting on a park bench when another boy became angry with them and hurled the knife.


Nate ducked. Tyler didn’t.

[arnisador]

Omaha man uses steak knife to perform self-tracheotomy (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_fe_st/odd_self_tracheotomy)




An Omaha man struggling to breathe used a steak knife to perform an at-home tracheotomy.

[arnisador]

Suspect held over Harry Potter stabbing (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080526/wl_uk_afp/britaincrimefilmpotter)


Police in London have been given more time to question a 21-year-old man held on suspicion of fatally stabbing a teenager actor who played a role in the forthcoming Harry Potter film, Scotland Yard said on Monday.

Rob Knox, 18, was killed outside the Metro Bar in southeast London in the early hours of Saturday morning while reportedly trying to protect his brother from a man wielding a knife.


The teenager played the role of student Marcus Belby in "Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince", which is due to be released in November.

[arnisador]

7 dead in stabbing spree in downtown Tokyo (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080608/ap_on_re_as/japan_stabbing)


A man who police said "was tired of life" drove into a crowd of pedestrians Sunday and then went on a stabbing rampage in Tokyo's top electronics and video game district, killing seven people and wounding 10, authorities said.
[...]
The attacker grunted and roared as he slashed and stabbed at his victims on a street crowded with Sunday shoppers, reports said.


"He was screaming as he was stabbing people at random," a witness told NHK.

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2 found stabbed at CTA stations (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-cta-stabbings-both-jul03,0,4307295.story)

Cops track down bloody knife used in Orange Line attack (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-cta-stabbings-both-jul03,0,4307295.story)



According to police, the 22-year-old man was on an Orange Line train when two men boarded at Roosevelt and one asked the man, "What are you looking at?'

One of the suspects punched the man in the lip and the other stabbed him twice in the back with a 6-inch steak knife, police said. Both men jumped off the train at the Library stop and fled.

[arnisador]

Stabbed Man Fights Back, Killing One Attacker Fourth Attacker Still at Large (http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=5455789&version=5&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1)





Transit worker fights back at 4 attackers, fatally stabbing one (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/01/11/2008-01-11_transit_worker_fights_back_at_4_attacker.html)

Update: See here (http://www.fmatalk.com/showthread.php?p=30827#post30827).

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Mom, daughter jailed in Houston-area killing

(http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-motherdaughter_07tsw.ART.State.Edition1.26e6f00.ht ml)
Two teenage girls are accused of stabbing a 75-year-old man to death in a robbery that netted them $15, and police say the mother of one of the teens put them up to it.


Dannette R. Gillespie, 38, gave knives to her 15-year-old daughter and Vanessa Anne Ocampo, 19, then waited in the car during the killing and robbery, according to a probable cause warrant.


More here (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gGpDmeCO4_GjjSYNn_TMN7KBg2zwD931CEG01).

[arnisador]

Weapon of choice

(http://www.telegram.com/article/20081012/NEWS/810120584/1116/NEWSREWIND) ‘What we’re seeing is a crisis’ (http://www.telegram.com/article/20081012/NEWS/810120584/1116/NEWSREWIND)


Now, a state criminal statute, seldom used in recent years and whose roots trace back to passage in 1906, will be applied and enforced in cases where people are fighting or causing chaos while carrying a knife. The statute, under the Crimes Against Public Peace, Section 10 of Chapter 269, General Laws of Massachusetts, lists a number of weapons, including different types of knives and odd and rarely used weapons.

The defined list of weapons in the statute — and especially the list of knives — leaves some loopholes. Authorities have a plan to close the loophole with an ordinance used in other Massachusetts cities fining people for carrying knives and other weapons.

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Jimmy Smits Stabs Stuntman (http://www.thecelebritycafe.com/features/20512.html)


A stuntman on the set of Dexter is rather lucky to be alive after Jimmy Smits accidently picked up the wrong knife (a real one, instead of the prop that was set up) and stabbed him during filming a fight scene for the TV show.

The man stabbed by the former-NYPD Blue star was Jeff Chase, who was thankfully wearing a small piece of plastic over his heart, which Smits somehow hit.

"For the scene, I was bound in Saran Wrap, duct tape over my mouth. I couldn't say a thing as I saw Jimmy grab at the knife. He picked up the real one by pure mistake. It was a mean looking knife," Chase said. "I heard fellow actor Michael C. Hall yelling at Jimmy to stop - but it was too late. I felt the thud in my chest. I didn't have on a metal breast plate like a lot of actors do in a scene like that."

He goes on to say that: "Instead I had a piece of acrylic clear plastic about the size of a Post-it note over my heart. It was a quarter of an inch thick and not attacked. In 8 out of 10 takes with the prop knife, Jimmy had missed the plastic. But by a miracle, an act of God, the knife landed at the very edge of the plastic."

[5tirosCamarin]

Jimmy Smits Stabs Stuntman (http://www.thecelebritycafe.com/features/20512.html)


What I want to know is, why was there a real knife anywhere near where they were shooting the scene? If I were a stuntman to be bound with saran wrap for a scene where a guy's gonna stab me, I'd personally make sure there's no way for that mistake to happen... for example, by LOOKING AROUND FOR REAL KNIVES and getting rid of them before I got stabbed lol

[Brian R. VanCise]

What I want to know is, why was there a real knife anywhere near where they were shooting the scene? If I were a stuntman to be bound with saran wrap for a scene where a guy's gonna stab me, I'd personally make sure there's no way for that mistake to happen... for example, by LOOKING AROUND FOR REAL KNIVES and getting rid of them before I got stabbed lol

Exactly. Why was a real knife anywhere near. http://www.fmatalk.com/images/icons/icon9.gif Plus would there not be a person solely delegated to ensure that the actor had in fact a fake prop knife. I know for a fact that I would have someone in place to protect me. http://www.fmatalk.com/images/icons/icon6.gif Thank goodness this gentleman is okay. http://www.fmatalk.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

[arnisador]

What I want to know is, why was there a real knife anywhere near where they were shooting the scene?

That's what I said to my wife. Mr. Hartman would slap me silly if I left a LIVE BLADE lying around in a training area where something like this could happen...and he'd be entirely right! When I hand a live blade to someone--even someone clued-in like Mr. Hartman or Mr. Snow--I always say "That's a live blade" just to be sure. It's nuts that they put a real knife near a fake one and hoped an actor best known for playing a lawyer on "L.A. Law" would make the right choice.

[arnisador]

Machete attack sends man to hospital (http://www.tribstar.com/local/local_story_366221045.html)


Witnesses said a Jamaican man, about 5 feet, 7 inches tall and 150 pounds, attacked a male victim with the machete before getting into a vehicle and driving north on 19th Street.

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CSI Star Attacked on NYC Subway (http://tv.yahoo.com/csi-crime-scene-investigation/show/461/news/urn:newsml:tv.tvguide.com:20090126:c406fdc3d5270a6 0d3e3a928bd9d8b06__ER:1)


CSI star Gerald McCullouch found himself at the center of his own crime scene when he was attacked on a New York City subway by a knife-wielding mugger.

The actor was editing a YouTube video on his laptop when the attacker jumped into the subway car and tried to steal the computer, McCullouch told the New York Daily News. A trained boxer, McCullouch fought back and "gave him a body shot to the chest," he said.

"That's when he pulled a kitchen knife out of a black plastic bag," McCullouch said. "This thing must have had a blade 10 inches long. ...I yelled at the top of my lungs, 'Get the [bleep] away from me!' That's when the knife came down into my back. I don't know whether he lost his grip or what, but the blade didn't penetrate my leather jacket."
[...]
This is the second time McCollouch has fought off a mugger. In 2001, he and a boyfriend were robbed at gunpoint in Atlanta.

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Alleged student attacker now at mental health facility (http://www.tribstar.com/local/local_story_030233155.html)


Before the attack, which occurred about 1:40 p.m., the 17-year-old student went into a bathroom, painted her face white and used black eye makeup to look like The Joker in the Batman movie “The Dark Knight.” She also made cuts on her face, which caused some bleeding.

[...]

While the girl’s motive remains unclear, “This was not a joke,” Spence said. “She took a knife and attempted to stab a teacher several times. As far as I’m concerned, that’s enough motive right there.”

The incident scared students and school staff, the sheriff said.

The student entered the classroom and attacked the teacher after the class had begun. She had a kitchen knife with about a five-inch blade, investigators said.

The teacher tried to contain and isolate the student using an audio-visual cart as a barrier, which enabled other students in the classroom to escape.

The teacher was trying to “take care of and protect the rest of her students,” Spence said. “She did an excellent job.”

Some boys remained in the classroom to assist the teacher.

Other high-school staff responded after they heard screams, and students in the classroom used cell phones to dial 911.

A school counselor was able to talk the girl into dropping her knife.

The student had carried the knife and two small folding knives in a backpack, police said.

[Pekiti & Bells]

its horrible
but the reality is ....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Tf8nHlEVY

thank goodness, that most folks survive knife attacks
not saying they survive well, but they do survive
and frankly, if I do not have to begin pooping in a bag I would be feeling pretty good about surviving

[arnisador]

Indy man is arrested in death of grandmother
Police: Grandmother was stabbed while trying to break up a sword fight (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009904100373)


A 77-year-old woman was fatally stabbed Thursday when she tried to break up a sword fight in which her grandson and brother-in-law were injured, police said.
[...]
According to police reports, Rondeau and Adolf Stegbauer, 69, both of Indianapolis, became involved in a fight that escalated to swordplay. The men used what police called a World War II Japanese officer's sword and a thin-blade sword.

[arnisador]

Indy man is arrested in death of grandmother
Police: Grandmother was stabbed while trying to break up a sword fight (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009904100373)

A second person has now died as a result of this attack.

For a Weapon With a Past, a New Life of Crime (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/nyregion/thecity/02mach.html)


IN a city whose mayor has been one of the nation’s most outspoken proponents of gun control, Councilwoman Diana Reyna of Brooklyn has distinguished herself by considering a bill to ban sales of a different weapon: the machete.

In July and August, four machete attacks were reported in the southern part of Williamsburg, where many of Ms. Reyna’s constituents live. Late last month, worries over machete violence again rippled through the community when a stray bullet hit a 5-year-old girl in nearby Ridgewood during a shootout. One of the young people involved in the attack was seen wielding a machete.

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Knife-wielding bandit beaten off by victim (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/22/2550113.htm)


The nurse from Murwillumbah had arrived for work at Mermaid Beach when she was confronted by a man who demanded her car keys.

But Ms Gascoine, who has had martial arts training, managed to fend him off.

"I had to go back down to the car about 10 o'clock to get something out of it and was approached by a gentleman who drew a knife on me and he tried to attack me," she said.

"I blocked it and I managed to get away from him. I think I managed to hurt him. I'm not 100 per cent sure, and got away and went back up to work and got six stitches in my arm."

[arnisador]

Clerk takes machete away from suspect (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009904240377)


A clerk wrestled a machete away from an attacker inside a southwest Indiana convenience store and suffered only a cut to his hand.
[...]
Clerk Samuel Brown, 38, told officers the man pulled out a machete, came behind the counter and began attacking him.

Police say Brown used a stepstool to defend himself and was able to take the weapon away from the attacker, who ran off.

[sjansen]

It could have been worse. Thank god it wasn't a chimpanzee. The people who acted should be regailed as heroes. I think of Hamarabi when I think what should happen to those who perpetrated the crime. An eye for an eye a stab for a stab.

[arnisador]

Subway Killing Captured by a Photo Student (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/nyregion/27deathcar.html?hpw)


It began with a startling, inexplicable explosion of anger over a seat on a D train. And then the passenger who had resisted giving up his seat was bleeding from stab wounds, staggering through the car, collapsing, dying.


The other passengers on the train at 2 a.m. Saturday — among them four photography students on their way home from burgers and beer in a Midtown restaurant — had just become witnesses to a murder. One of the students, Paola Nuñez Solorio, 30, chronicled the aftermath of the stabbing, ending her day as she had begun it, watching the world through her camera.

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Man with 5-inch knife stuck in chest orders coffee
(http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=indystar&sParam=32365543.story)

A 52-year-old man complained only about the cold weather before walking into a diner with a five-inch knife sticking out of his chest. The unnamed man called a Warren 911 operator on Sunday night to ask that an ambulance be sent to Bray's, an eatery in neighboring Hazel Park. He said he had been stabbed during a robbery attempt half a mile away, then walked to the restaurant and called 911 from a pay phone.

On a recording of the call, the man gives a vague description of his attacker before saying, "I'm gonna sit down at Bray's 'cause they got a chair and it's cold out here."


Restaurant employee George Mirdita told The Detroit News the man calmly ordered coffee.

[arnisador]

Charlie Sheen's Wife Claims He Threatened Her (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/28/arts/AP-US-Charlie-Sheen-Arrested.html)


Charlie Sheen's wife told police the actor pinned her on a bed, put a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her in a Christmas Day fight in Aspen that began when she said she wanted a divorce.
[...]
The 44-year-old Sheen denied threatening his wife with a knife or choking her
[...]
In an audio recording of the call released Monday, the woman can be heard weeping and sometimes her words are inaudible. At one point she said: ''My husband had me (inaudible) with um, with a knife, and (inaudible) he threatened me.'' Later, she said, ''I thought I was gonna die for one hour.''


Police say Charlie Sheen surrendered a folding knife with a 4-inch blade.

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Artie Lange used 13-inch kitchen knife in violent suicide try; released from hospital after surgery



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/01/07/2010-01-07_artie_lange.html#ixzz0c8ikjoRr


Howard Stern's sharp-tongued sidekick Artie Lange stabbed himself nine times in the gut with a 13-inch Wolfgang Puck kitchen knife in a violent attempt to take his own life, police said.

[arnisador]

Israeli soldier stabbed to death in West Bank (http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1470900.html)


A knife-wielding Palestinian police officer killed an Israeli soldier Wednesday as he sat in a jeep stopped at a traffic light in the West Bank, the military said, in a rare case of violence recently in the territory.

The attacker reached through the window and stabbed him in the chest, the military said. The wounded soldier, who was alone in the vehicle, tried to drive away, but he lost consciousness and the vehicle spun out of control, flipping over.


Hebron: IDF foils stabbing attempt (http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=168574)


A Palestinian man who tried to stab an IDF soldier on Friday afternoon died on the way to an Israeli hospital, the army said in a statement. Soldiers opened fire on the man after he weilded a knife and lunged at a soldier who was on patrol near a mosque in Hebron.

No soldiers were wounded in the incident,

[arnisador]

Alabama woman accidentally stabbed brother to death while doing dishes, investigators confirm (http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/06/investigators_agree_center_poi.html)


A Center Point woman who says she accidentally stabbed her brother to death while she was doing the dishes will not be charged with any crime, authorities said today.
[...]
Turner's sister and 12-year-old nephew were home at the time. The sister told investigators her brother came up behind her and startled her.



"She quickly turned around and the knife went in his chest," Christian said.

[blindside]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012522999_stab04m.html



Bremerton man stabbed in neck; he may have wounded 1 of 2 attackers

Police are searching for two suspects after a 73-year-old man was stabbed late Monday in his Bremerton home.
By Seattle Times staff (http://search.nwsource.com/search?searchtype=cq&sort=date&from=ST&byline=Seattle%20Times%20staff)


Related

Police are searching for two suspects after a 73-year-old man was stabbed late Monday in his Bremerton home.
The victim was stabbed in the neck, but told officers that he used kitchen knives to fight back and may have wounded one of his attackers, according to Bremerton police.
After the attack, the suspects, identified as James Semore, 58, and Rhonda Rebecca Lowder, 55, left in the victim's green 1996 GMC pickup, police said.
The victim was taken to Harrison Medical Center, treated for a non-life-threatening wound to the back of his neck and released.
Police said Semore had lived with the victim for more than a year before being evicted several months ago.
The incident began in the victim's home, where Semore and Lowder had arrived earlier in the evening, police said.
The victim told police that shortly before the assault, the victim told Semore and Lowder that it was late, he wanted to go to bed and asked them to leave. While the victim was eating a sandwich, the man stabbed him in the back of the neck, police said. The victim said that Lowder picked up some kitchen knives and joined the attack.
Police are checking medical facilities for anyone seeking treatment for face or neck injuries.
The couple apparently had been living recently in Castle Rock, police said.

[blindside]

CRIME: Machete used to fight off sword-swinging Sunnyside man

By Paula Horton, Herald staff writer

Sunnyside A Sunnyside man is behind bars after allegedly ramming into another man’s car then getting out and swinging a sword at the victim.
The victim, a 27-year-old who was not named by police, grabbed a machete that was in his yard and used it to defend himself, Sunnyside police said.
The incident started at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the 100 block of South 11th Street, police said.
Officers learned that Dale G. Robertson, 25, was driving down 11th Street when spotted the victim backing out of a driveway.
Robertson stopped at the stop sign, put his 1981 Ford F-150 truck in reverse and backed into the victim’s car, police said.
Robertson then reportedly got out of the truck with a sword and started swinging it at the victim until the victim grabbed the machete, police said.
Robertson jumped back into his truck and sped away but was quickly caught by police in the 1400 block of South Sixth Street.
He was arrested on suspicion of first-degree assault and two counts of second-degree assault.
For more crime news, see Thursday’s Herald and tricityherald.com.


Read more: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2011/02/09/1360977/crime-machete-used-to-fight-off.html#ixzz1DZSbVZPZ


And just last weekend when we were doing some stick on stick/blade on blade sparring I was doing the whole disclaimer of "not that I would ever expect this to happen," and then it happens in our area.