‘He was screaming because that’s one of my techniques, the bent fingers,’ she said.
A California woman who says she trained in jujitsu for decades while listening to “Eye of the Tiger,” took down a home intruder and protected her elderly neighbors at a senior apartment complex in Fontana earlier this week, according to multiple reports.
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Lorenza Marrujo, 67, says she prefers the name “Lady Ninja,” due to her martial arts experience over the years. Standing at less than 5 feet tall, Marrujo reportedly left the suspect — identified by authorities as Donald Robert Prestwood, 59 — yelling in pain after she defended a wheelchair-using friend and neighbor, Elizabeth McCray, 81, on Monday.
Marrujo originally scared away the suspect from her own apartment after grabbing a bat and telling him to “back off,” according to a joint report by Los Angeles TV stations KCAL-TV and KCBS-TV. The suspect reportedly left before Marrujo heard screams coming from McCray’s residence.
“He grabbed me and shake me, and I went down on the floor,” McCray said before Marrujo arrived to help her.
“I squeezed myself between her and him. I put Mama [McCray] on the side, and I jumped on him. I was punching him and everything, and I had the cane against his throat,” Marrujo added.
Weighing just 100 pounds, Marrujo said didn’t want to kill the suspect — listed in jail records as 5-foot-10 and 170 pounds — so she switched positions and held him down.
“He lifted up and tried to twist my hand. At the same time, I twisted his and turned it around real fast. He was saying, ‘You’re hurting me.’ And I said, ‘I don’t care. I don’t care what happens to you. You had no right to hurt an elderly person,’” Marrujo told a reporter. Read more from Fox News.
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