Meet ‘Lady Ninja,’ the 67-year-old who beat up a man attacking her friend — and saved her life
Associated Press
FONTANA, Calif. — Her martial arts skills may not be quite what they once were, but still, you don’t mess with Lady Ninja. Authorities say that’s a lesson a California man learned painfully after he began shoving around an 82-year-old woman at a Fontana apartment building. The woman’s 67-year-old friend, Lorenza Marrujo, jumped into the fray and with a swift kick here, a finger-bending maneuver there and a couple of solid elbow smashes to the sternum it was all over. Police arrived to find him on the floor with one of Marrujo’s knees on his neck and the other on his chest. Marrujo, who likes to be called “Lady Ninja” and has a black belt in jiujitsu, said she was in her third-floor apartment Monday when she … Continue Reading (3 minute read)