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MILWAUKEE -- A drunk samurai sword-wielding man seeking revenge on a former friend had the wrong apartment when he attacked a man and severed the victim's pinky finger Sunday morning, police said.

Officers said the 24-year-old assailant was so drunk on his way to the apartment at 49th Street and Euclid Avenue that he hit several cars parked on a nearby street.

The man knocked on some wrong doors first, police said, attacking one door with the 20-inch samurai-like sword and causing a lot of damage.

The last door he came upon was kicked and struck with the weapon, police said, and when someone opened the door, the man went after him with the sword, bending it and severing a finger.

Officers said the victim wasn't the man's former friend.

Police said the victim forced the man out of the building and an off-duty police officer who lives nearby heard the commotion, arrested the man and took him to jail.

The victim was taken to the hospital and released.

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Klamath Falls authorities say the Purple Parrot lounge has been robbed by a woman wielding a Samurai-style sword.

Klamath County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Chris Montenaro says the suspect used the weapon to threaten a cashier before taking cash from the register and fleeing.

No one was hurt at the South Sixth Street bar and the amount of money stolen was not disclosed.

Montenaro says the woman was at the lounge earlier in the evening, then left, only to return armed with the sword.

She has been described as in her mid-20s. She was wearing a hooded sweatshirt with sunglasses and a bandanna covering her face at the time of the robbery.

Two men suffered sword wounds and a woman is in jail following a fight over a car in Bristol Township early Saturday morning.

Police responded to Iris Road in the Indian Creek section of the township several times Thursday to deal with an ongoing dispute over ownership of a Honda. They thought it had been resolved until they were back at the house about 1 a.m. Saturday for a reported stabbing.

When police arrived, Robert Middleman, 50, of Iris Road and Jason Novack, were both sitting on the couch — Middleman bleeding from a deep wound to his left thigh and Novack from a wound to the back of his head.

It was unclear how the incident started, but police said Middleman struck Novack in the back of the head with a three-foot sword, police said. Middleman's wife, Patricia Anne Bates, 53, also of Iris Road, came into the room and a brief struggle ensued, ending after Bates gained control of the sword and struck Middleman in the thigh, according to court records.

HUDSON -- They were fighting over the money they'd been saving to buy a new vehicle. He wanted to see the money, but she was afraid he'd spend it.

"Show me the money," Woody Harold Stennett Jr. told his wife Tuesday afternoon, according to a sheriff's incident report. "Show me the money or I'll stab you."

And then he picked up a sword from the end table and he plunged it into her thigh, the report said.

The couple's 2-year-old child saw the whole thing.

Stennett, 21, of Hudson, was arrested and charged with aggravated domestic assault and battery and carrying a concealed weapon. He was held in the Land O' Lakes jail without bail.

It was unclear how Stennett had come into possession of the sword, which the report described as "a long, chrome sword with a red handle." Deputies at the crime scene also recovered a star-shaped black knife with three 4-inch blades.

A Warner Robins woman has been charged with stabbing her husband in the groin with a four-foot samurai sword, according to police.

Shondrell Lashey Ameri, 27, was arrested at her home just before 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, according to police.

Her husband, Walid Ameri, told police that the incident came after a day of arguing Monday.

Mr. Ameri says his wife blocked his car so that he couldn't leave the house. He says he walked to a neighbor's house and got a ride to Watson Boulevard so that he could eat dinner. When he returned home, he said. his wife cornered him in their computer room, yelled that she was going to cut him, grabbed the sword and stabbed him.

Mr. Ameri says he has filed for divorce.

LAUREL, Md. — A man attacked his 51-year-old mother with a samurai-style sword Tuesday, nearly amputating one of her arms, police said.

The man called police shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday, saying he was suicidal, and asked police to meet him, said Cpl. Debbi Carlson, a Prince George's County police spokeswoman.

He gave no indication he had hurt anyone when police and firefighters met him a few minutes later and took him to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, said Mark Brady, a county fire spokesman.

The mother called police from the same address at about 10:30 to report that her son had attacked her and run off. "The officers and dispatchers put two and two together," Carlson said.

The woman was taken to a trauma center in Baltimore for what Brady called "a near amputation" of one arm.