This cool elderly woman with her black belt skills in jiu-jitsu single-handedly took down a home intruder and saved the day. With a neon baseball bat in her hand, Lorenza told the intruder that she is known as 'Lady Ninja' and told him to 'back off', which he obviously did.
A 67-year old woman with a black belt in jiu-jitsu took down a home intruder after he broke into a residential complex for elderly people.
Lorenza Marrujo with a frame of 4ft 11inches and weighing just 100 lbs might look a petite woman but her 26-years of martial arts practice kicked in when burglars entered in her elderly apartment complex in Fontana, California, USA.
Lorenza with a neon baseball bat in her hand told the intruder that she is known as a 'Lady Ninja' and he might better back off, which he did.
It was just then Lorenza then heard the screams of 81-year-old neighbor Elizabeth McCray, who said the man had broken into her home, grabbed her, and shook her, causing her to fall to the floor.
Before Lorenza could fetch the man away, she went to help her friend Elizabeth.
Telling the account of what happened that day, Lorenza told CBS LA: "I squeezed myself between her and him. I put mama [Elizabeth] on the side, and I jumped on him and I was punching him and everything, and I had the cane against his throat.
"He lifted up and tried to twist my hand, but at the same time, I twisted his and turned it around real fast and he was saying, 'You're hurting me, 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'."
To say the least, Elizabeth was equally shocked by Lorenzo's black belt skills then the intruder was.
Elizabeth said: "I didn't expect that little lady would be that brave. I said, 'Could you be careful, he's gonna kill us.' She said, 'Not tonight'."
Following the incident, Elizabeth was shifted to the hospital for her treatment and released the same day.
Also, 59-year-old Donald Robert Prestwood was arrested on suspicion of elder abuse and was held at West Valley Detention Center on $150,000 (£116,507) bail, pleading not guilty to the charge on Thursday, according to the San Bernadino Sun.
Jennie Venzor, spokesperson for the Fontana Police Department, admitted this was a 'feel-good story', but advised others against taking on home intruders, who could be armed.
She said: "We recommend that you dial 911 for emergency assistance, which, in this case, she did that, and she also jumped in.
"What she told me is that her training kicked in, and it was like a muscle memory. She knew she had to help her friend out."
