Don't bring an axe to a gunfight
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:03 pm
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Westergaard, whose five-year-old granddaughter was in the home on a sleepover, sought shelter in a specially made safe room when the suspect broke a window of the home, Preben Nielsen of the Aarhus police said.
Michael Larsen, a police spokesman, said that authorities arrived at the house minutes after receiving an alarm set off by Westergaard alerting them to the intruder.
"[The authorities] found a person and he attacked the police with an axe and a knife. He was shot in the leg and the hand and he is in hospital [now]," Larsen told Al Jazeera .
Westergaard, whose five-year-old granddaughter was in the home on a sleepover, sought shelter in a specially made safe room when the suspect broke a window of the home, Preben Nielsen of the Aarhus police said.
Michael Larsen, a police spokesman, said that authorities arrived at the house minutes after receiving an alarm set off by Westergaard alerting them to the intruder.
"[The authorities] found a person and he attacked the police with an axe and a knife. He was shot in the leg and the hand and he is in hospital [now]," Larsen told Al Jazeera .