CA: ex hubby shot after attacking wife’s family WITH A HATCHETT !
Subject: Newsday.com – Man Killed After Hatchet Attack
Man Killed After Hatchet Attack
By Associated Press
October 31, 2002, 3:51 PM EST
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. — A man who posted bail, then broke into his ex-wife’s
home and attacked her family with a hatchet was shot to death early Thursday
by her boyfriend, authorities said.
The man, who was not identified, had been in custody for violating a
restraining order by breaking into the home Sunday and assaulting the woman
and their 10-year-old daughter, Orange County Sheriff’s spokesman Jim
Amormino said.
He was freed after posting $25,000 bail.
Authorities said the man broke into the house again at about 1 a.m. Thursday
and tried to make the girl drink some sort of caustic liquid.
When his ex-wife’s parents stopped him, he began swinging a hatchet at them,
Amormino said. The older man grabbed a gun but was hit. The boyfriend was
also hit but got a shotgun and fatally shot the intruder, authorities said.
The boyfriend and the woman’s parents were being treated for deep cuts on
their heads and arms, authorities said. The woman and her daughter were not
physically injured. Their identities were not released.
Amormino said the man had been arrested numerous times after following his
ex-wife and daughter from San Antonio, where they had lived.
Copyright ? 2002, The Associated Press
