A 67-year-old woman used her jiu-jitsu training to stop an intruder from hurting her neighbor in California, USA.
Donald Robert Prestwood, 59, who also lived in the building, assaulted Lorenza Marrujo’s neighbor on Sept. 28 2020, after first entering her apartment by force according to NYpost.com.
An intoxicated Prestwood grabbed Marrujo, which prompted her to get a baseball bat.
Marrujo told the newspaper:
“I said, ‘Back off or I will have to hurt you,’”
Prestwood exited her apartment and made his way to their 87-year-old neighbor Elizabeth McCray’s apartment.
Marrujo followed him down to her unit. When she arrived, the apartment’s lights were switched off and Marrujo heard screams.
She then called 911 before using her cellphone’s light to find Prestwood, as per report. When Marrujo saw him standing over McCray, she immediately swept her leg, causing him to fall to the ground.
Once he was on the floor, Prestwood used his legs to subdue McCray.
“I had to bend his fingers back … to get him off her. He was screaming because that’s one of my techniques, the bent fingers,” Marrujo explained. “Then I went ‘boom’ with my elbow twice in his sternum.”
Marrujo trained in jiu-jitsu from 1981 to 2007 and has a black belt.
According to police, 67-year-old Lorenza Marrujo confronted an intruder after he broke into her Fontana apartment at a complex for seniors.
