I wonder if the next time they do this... they have the machete in this killing that happened today, to show that ANYONE (not anything, guns don't kill people, knives don't kill people, bombs don't kill people, see where I am going with this??) can kill anyone at anytime if the feel they want to, with MANY weapons to choose from.
http://news.yahoo.com/deadly-knife-attack-stuns-north-carolina-neighborhood-065828917.html
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Frantic and bloodied from a machete attack that killed her three sons, a mother jumped from an upstairs window and ran across the street for help, neighbors say.
Both the attacker and his victims were from Myanmar, part of a community of 1,900 refugees who fled persecution in Southeast Asia.
Late Tuesday night, the mother pounded on her neighbors' door, bleeding from a wound in her back and begging for help. The sounds of screaming and dogs barking, then police sirens awakened the normally quiet neighborhood, where a number of refugee families live.
"We were scared," said A Bu, who took in the mother and a surviving daughter while they waited for police.
Police said 18-year-old Eh Lar Doh Htoo entered her home and killed her sons, ages 1, 5 and 12, with a machete. He was still holding the weapon when officers arrived, New Bern Police Chief Toussaint Summers Jr. told The Associated Press.
New Bern Police Lt. Ronda Allen said Thursday that the father was at work at the time. The mother and her 14-year-old daughter have been treated and released.
The suspect was charged with three counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Police said they don't know whether he has an attorney. Neither do they know why he did it. His first court appearance was scheduled for Friday.
Police said they were using interpreters from Interfaith Ministries to help with interviews of the suspect and witnesses.
"You can't always tell when a person understands or speaks English," Summers said Wednesday of the suspect. "So we'll have to do some more investigation and see from his acquaintances if he can speak English."
Outsiders call all those involved "Burmese," but neighbors said the suspect was a member of the Karen ethnic group. Cookie Davenport, who began working with refugees years ago through her church, said that community has been holding prayer services since the slayings, "all grieving together."
The victims were Karenni, another group from the country formerly known as Burma that speaks a different language, Davenport said.
The stabbings happened on a street of about 10 homes facing a railroad track and several dilapidated commercial buildings in New Bern, a coastal town. About 11 p.m. Tuesday, responding officers found two dead boys inside the home. A third died at a hospital. Police did not release the victims' names.
Another neighbor said the suspect had scared his family as well, by knocking on their door several times in the middle of the night.
"He's crazy," neighbor Ner Wah said Wednesday. "I told my wife: 'Be careful. Don't answer the door.'"
Wah said that like him, Htoo was a member of the Karen ethnic group. Htoo once came to Wah's house during the day to ask him to help translate documents, but Wah said they weren't friends.
"We felt very scared of him," Wah said.
The refugees tend to be very hard-working, Davenport said. They typically have their moving and some living expenses funded by the federal government, and pay back a no-interest loan once they have a job.
"They don't mind working in the middle of the night because they need to support their family," she said. "They are not a proud people where any job is beneath them."
