JHU Student Kills Suspected Burglar With Sword|ABC 7 News

Baltimore police say a Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed an intruder he discovered in his garage.

The undergrads who live in the rowhouse in the 300 block of University Boulevard were awakened about 1:20 a.m. They had experienced a break-in the day before and were concerned and scared. One them carried a decorative samurai-type sword.

He told police he found a man hiding under a counter in the garage, and when he yelled for his housemates to call 911, the man lunged toward him.

"The student, in a panic, swung the samurai sword, severed the man's hand," said Baltimore police Det. Donny Moses.

The presumed burglar bled out and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police identified him as Donald Rice, a career thief just two days out of jail from another burglary charge.

The student is a pre-med junior from New Jersey with no criminal history. The tragic intersection of their very different lives has neighbors shaking their heads in sadness.

"There were two people in that yard: one had a weapon, one didn't -- both were scared," said Daniel Toland. "Maybe the kid did the right thing, I don't know."

But for Monica Baker, "I mean to arm yourself to investigate is one thing, to act like that is totally different."

Fellow student Diego Ardila lived in the house over the summer. He believes the student who swung the sword did what he had to.

"It was self defense," Ardila said. "It was just such a shock. You just don't expect someone you know to kill a man with a samurai sword."

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 in the 300 block of University Boulevard.

Police are interviewing the student and others and are talking to prosecutors about whether to file charges.

well gaaawd dayum

Neither.

I call it solving our prison overcrowding problem.

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No such thing as excessive force when somebody runs up in your shyt!

In Baltimore, it is self defense.

Considering how many cases there have been of Hopkins students being murdered, sexually assulted, or kidnapped ( attempted at least), I really don't think this is too bad.

That'll teach people to break into peoples shit from now on!

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Samurai Sword?
Cotdayum.

Wow I don't know how I feel about this one. He had to do what he had to do. The article is right, its so sad that their paths had to cross tragically like this.

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Premed students and no one thought to apply a tourniquet on the wound.

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I would have got medieval on his ass to

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They didn't want to apply a tourniquet.

And I don't blame them.

He would have just went to the emergency room and wasted even more money than he would sitting in jail.

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Where is BBG. to talk about "It's just stuff" And say that the burglar shouldn't have been killed?

Samurai swords of that type are only $75.

I'm sorry, but I laughed.

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smh@ yall women talking about tourniquets. When you cut a man down, that is the last thing on your mind. Especially with all that blood. Dude was traumatized.

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I would have sliced his hand off too

Y'all know the saying when you RUN up you get DONE up

Let that be a lesson to these career criminals

Chances are he severed the person's arteries

AIn't nothing to do but watch the person bleed out

you can die in a matter of seconds if you do it right

Should have sliced his head off too and if that Premed student gets charged Then I'll know that it's better to be a criminal than to be a law abiding citizen protecting what's yours

Shit, I'm very territorial about mine don't let ME catch your hands in MY cookie jar

So he took off his head with 1 swing? OMG

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