according to People.Authorities said the alleged perpetrator had attacked two others before Yi and appeared to be off her medication.
Yi, 37, arrived at the pilates studio where she was teaching a class shortly before 6 a.m., but as her students started to arrive, she noticed a disheveled woman heading toward the door.“She was yelling all sorts of things like, ‘You stole my identity,’ and ‘You’re a prostitute,'” Yi told the publication. “Santa Monica has a homeless problem, and I’ve dealt with this type of thing before.
So I told her, ‘Ma’am, you can’t be here. You need to leave.'”Yi said the woman didn’t budge but rather lunged at her with a knife in one hand and a metal baton in the other.“She stabbed me in the left bicep.
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