Final Lesson: Nevada Woman Brings Knife To Gun Fight

Armed self-defense episodes aren’t at all times one individual with a gun combating off an attacker or aggressor with a gun. The truth is, an attacker can maim or kill an harmless sufferer with any variety of “weapons” starting from fists or ft, to baseball bats or ice picks, to bricks or automobiles.

Or, within the case of 1 current episode, a knife. Such was the weapon of alternative in an assault in Bullhead Metropolis, Nevada, about an hour and a half south of Las Vegas, when a lady inadvertently “took a knife to a gun struggle.”

The Bible tells us to like our neighbors, however most of us have realized that’s not at all times the best factor to do. Such apparently was the case with some neighbors on Seafair Drive in Bullhead Metropolis who had a long-running dispute with each other.

Based on a report at 8newsnow.com, on August 8 simply earlier than 8 p.m., 49-year-old Lucindy Gale Parkison had gone to a close-by house to confront the residents on what police are calling “ongoing points.” In what would turn into an unlucky determination for her, she took a knife alongside on her “go to.”

Based on the Bullhead Metropolis Police Division, Parkison superior towards residents within the entrance yard and made threats earlier than pushing a feminine who lived there towards a wall and holding the knife to her throat. “The sufferer had a defensive lower on her hand from Parkison’s knife when she reportedly held it to the sufferer’s throat,” police stated.

A male resident grabbed his gun and ordered Parkison to depart the property, prompting Parkison to launch the girl and cost him with the knife. He then shot her a number of instances, killing her on the spot.

Based on police, the person with the gun and the opposite residents cooperated absolutely with investigators. No fees have been file, and primarily based on the outcomes of the investigation none are anticipated.

Whereas many may assume a person with a gun taking pictures a lady with a knife is an unfair “disparity of power,” it is a good instance of how harmful—and lethal—any attacker with an edged weapon might be. And it’s additionally a superb instance of how the very best armed individual concerned in a violent assault usually comes out on high within the encounter.