re: #244 Occasional Reader

You appear to be correct. My mistake.

Maybe not

New details in Hopkins samurai sword case

Police now say the confrontation occurred outside the student’s garage, not inside, as first reported by authorities. And they say the student didn’t react to a noise and find an intruder but in fact had been alerted by police that a suspicious man had been spotted in the neighborhood. He and officers from the city and Hopkins investigated but found nothing.

A few hours later, police now say the student grabbed the sword and went outside with friends and later found the suspect in a driveway. Police say the student was backed up to the exterior of a garage door when they said the suspect lunged and the student made a single swipe with the sword.

Still sounds like self defense to me, being backed up and lunged at.