'The doc' kills two in self defense

[YogsVR4]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/stor...061765,00.html

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.
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Clearly the article doesn't know all the facts but from what I can tell, they should release the guy and give him a parade.













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[jon@af]

W3rd to teh Yogs, bastards deserve what they got. They thought they were invincible and happened to mess with the wrong guy and paid for it.

[freakray]

Agreed, the guy should be released.
How can acting in self defense be excessive use of force?

The man is a hero!

[TexasF355F1]

W3RD to all, that guy needs a medal.

[Amish_kid]

Man would have been funnier if he got all 4, just to think both of the people he killed had knives he had nothing. They should just release him before he lays a hurting on someone at the Police Station.

[jp171]

Betcha they won't do that again.

Guns aren't even 100% effective against someone with such training. Four bumbling crooks with knives against someone whose body is a deadly weapon? This calls for a Darwin Award. Personally I think the "doctor" just let them tie him up before the asss-kicking to add insult to severe injuries.

[T4 Primera]

I think he played along while it was just a robbery, but when they threatened the women they crossed the line. i.e. possessions not worth killing over but people under threat is a different story.

[taranaki]

Originally Posted by T4 Primera

I think he played along while it was just a robbery, but when they threatened the women they crossed the line. i.e. possessions not worth killing over but people under threat is a different story.

Count me in on this view.Property is replaceable,go with the path of least resistance.When people start getting threatened,then you need to put up your best defence.


Interesting that an unarmed man can disarm and overpower 4 crims.Kinda gives the lie to the lame old excuse that you need to have a gun under the bed to fend off crims.

[Toksin]

Originally Posted by taranaki

Count me in on this view.Property is replaceable,go with the path of least resistance.When people start getting threatened,then you need to put up your best defence.


Interesting that an unarmed man can disarm and overpower 4 crims.Kinda gives the lie to the lame old excuse that you need to have a gun under the bed to fend off crims.

Nah, you just need a Chinese martial arts expert under the bed

[taranaki]

Originally Posted by Toksin

Nah, you just need a Chinese martial arts expert under the bed

Reds under the bed?So last century.You need a tame terrorist in the closet.

[Cbass]

Good ons to him, if two of the guys got away, they got less than what they deserved.

Still, in the eyes of the law, if they fled when he started stabbing people and he chased them down, that's murder in the second degree.