Mass murder in less than two minutes with a KNIFE>…

“He was on bail after an alleged assault on his wife, Sunny Park, and was not supposedto go to the family home where she was living with the couple’s six-year-old son and her parents.”

Too bad Mom did NOT have a selfdefense firearm to do what the law failed to do —- protect her family!

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VIOLENCE: GRUESOME SLAYINGS
Date: May 3, 2008 10:08 AM
PUBLICATION: GLOBE AND MAIL
DATE: 2008.05.03
PAGE: S1
BYLINE: JUSTINE HUNTER
SECTION: British Columbia N
EDITION: Metro
DATELINE: Victoria BC
WORDS: 868

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: GRUESOME SLAYINGS HAPPENED ‘ALL IN THE SPAN OF 11/2, TWO
MINUTES’ Lee stabbed wife ‘like a sewing machine’ Horrific details of
how father killed estranged family revealed at coroner’s inquest

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Before the first police officer arrived in the dark driveway at 310 King George
Terrace, Peter Lee had already finished what he set out to do.

A coroner’s inquest yesterday heard forensics experts describe a furious, bloody
rampage as a jilted husband killed his family.

The only comfort they could offer was that it was all over in two minutes or less.
In that time, Mr. Lee stabbed and slashed his four victims more than 100 times before
stabbing himself repeatedly in the heart with the same military-issue knife.

The assaults fit a pattern of someone in an emotional frenzy, the doctor who examined
the bodies told an inquest yesterday.

Yet there was order in Mr. Lee’s actions.

He was on bail after an alleged assault on his wife, Sunny Park, and was not supposed
to go to the family home where she was living with the couple’s six-year-old
son and her parents.

Shortly after 3 a.m. on Sept. 4, Mr. Lee, a navy reservist, parked his car on a
cul-de-sac out of sight of the home, using a trail to sneak up from the back. He
brought duct tape, binoculars, a bottle of flammable liquid, a lighter and gloves.

Leaving the scabbard in the car, he carried a knife with a single-edged, 13-centimetre
blade. It was poorly designed for Mr. Lee’s purpose, with no hilt or guard.
But it may have had some significance to Mr. Lee: Ms. Park had warned police just
weeks earlier that he carried his knife everywhere.

At his former home, he taped a basement window to break it quietly, knowing the
alarm would not go off unless the window casing was opened.

Climbing through, he went straight to the master bedroom where his estranged wife
slept, poured the flammable liquid on the bed and then began stabbing Ms. Park.

It appears the rest of the family was roused from bed by the sound of the attack.
Clad only in a nightgown, Kum Lea Chun, Ms. Park’s mother, ran to the kitchen
to call 911. Ms. Park’s father, Moon Kyu Park, 66, seems to have confronted
Mr. Lee at the foot of the bed where his daughter lay, grievously wounded.

There Mr. Park was stabbed repeatedly, with no sign that he managed to raise a hand
in self-defence.

Mr. Lee then attacked Ms. Chun while she was still talking to a police dispatcher,
her chilling screams recorded. The pathologist, Kerry Pringle, believes the 26 knife
wounds that Mr. Lee inflicted on his mother-in-law killed her quickly. She fell
on top of the phone, disconnecting the call.

In that time, forensic experts believe, Ms. Chun may have been trying to shield
her grandson, Christian Lee, who had flung back the bedcovers and run from his bedroom.

The boy’s grandfather appears to have managed to get up and Mr.

Lee once again attacked him. He was stabbed in the face, the back and the chest
a total of 15 times.

Christian appears to have then run to his mother, who was possibly still alive but
unable to rise from her bed. His father followed him into the bedroom and closed
the door. Mr. Lee was then alone with his wife and son.

He stabbed his little boy 20 times in the chest, in a tight cluster over his heart.

The boy may have been so frightened that he froze, suggested the pathologist, noting
there was little to suggest Christian tried to ward off his father.

“The pattern of 20 wounds suggests a frenzied event,” Dr. Pringle concluded.

Around this time, a Saanich police dispatcher managed to call back, still trying
to determine what was happening. Mr. Lee answered from the bedroom. He straddled
his wife and knifed her in the face and chest, possibly while explaining to the
dispatcher that the family was “having a fight.” He advised the caller
to send fire and ambulance services, before hanging up.

Dr. Pringle estimated Ms. Park was stabbed or slashed 49 times.

Both arms were cut as she tried to defend herself.

“It’s like a sewing-machine motion – stabbing, stabbing, stabbing,”
he told the hushed inquest. She couldn’t have lived for much more than a minute
after that.

Sergeant Rick Gosling, the Saanich police forensics expert who took the inquest
through his findings yesterday, described the “horrific” amounts of blood
his team encountered once they entered the otherwise tidy home.

“It’s hard to imagine: This is all in the span of 1 1/2, two minutes,”
he said.

After those chaotic moments, Mr. Lee again tried to establish some order.

He barricaded the door with a mattress, then dragged his wife’s body to the
adjacent den, laying her out face up, with her right arm extended. Christian’s
body was laid out next to her, his head on her arm.

Mr. Lee leaned over them and tried to slash his wrists. When that didn’t seem
to be enough, he stabbed himself 10 times in the chest in the region of his heart.
He was found slumped over the two, his knife fallen next to his hand.

The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security !