'She's A Warrior:' Local Woman Fights Off Machete Attacker

SEATTLE, WA - A 27-year-old Seattle woman fought off a man who attacked her with a machete early in the morning on New Year's Day, according to the Seattle Times. Lillian Germond was entering her Madison Park apartment building after a late night at work when the attacker approached, machete raised, and told her not to move.

She did not obey.

According to the report, Germond grabbed the attacker's machete and started wrestling him. She beat the attacker into submission until he was literally begging her to stop, according to the Times.

The alleged attacker, Steven Jahn, 21, of Edmonds, is being held in the King County Jail on fourth-degree and second-degree felony assault charges, according to jail records.

It was almost one year ago that another Seattle woman fought off a terrifying attack. Kelly Herron was using the bathroom at Golden Gardens Park in Ballard when a registered sex offender tried to assault her. Herron used her self-defense training to subdue the alleged attacker.

Similarly, Germond took self defense classes when she was younger at the behest of her father, a corrections officer. He told the Times. "She’s a warrior woman."

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