She Is Our Hero: A woman, 82, beats intruder, sends him to the hospital
Article By Rhonda Sanders // EEW Magazine // News
She might be 82 years old, but she is by no means weak or feeble.
Willie Murphy of Rochester, NY was getting ready for bed when a man broke into her home, but she literally turned the tables on the intruder and beat him so bad he was hospitalized.
Murphy told ABC Rochester affiliate WHAM that a stranger showed up Thursday night just after 11 pm and began pounding on her door claiming to be ill.
“He was outside and saying, ‘Please call an ambulance,’ saying, ‘I’m sick, I’m sick,’” she said.
But she didn’t fall for that trick. Instead of letting him inside, Murphy called 911—a move that made the trickster on the other side of the door angry.
“I hear a loud noise,” she said. “I’m thinking, 'What the heck was that? The young man is in my home. He broke the door.”
The suspect probably had no idea Murphy is an award-winning bodybuilder who spends time working out at the local YMCA almost daily.
“He picked the wrong house to break into,” she said.
Murphy told reporters it was dark in her house, so she hid as the suspect walked through the residence. Then, the quick-on-her-feet bodybuilder grabbed the closest thing she could find.
“I picked up the table, and I went to work on him,” she said. ‘The table broke, and when he’s down, I’m jumping on him.”
Once the suspect was injured, Murphy didn’t stop there.
“I grabbed the shampoo,” she said. “Guess what? He’s still on the ground. In his face, all of it, the whole thing.”
But it wasn’t over. He was in for another brutal beating. “I got the broom,” she continued. “He’s pulling the broom. I’m hitting him with the broom.”
When the officers finally arrived on the scene, the badly beaten intruder was taken to the hospital and Murphy was praised by the first responders.
“The officers that came wanted to go on my front porch and take selfies with me,” she said.
Friday, she went right back to the YMCA and received a hero’s welcome.
In case anyone wanted to know, Murphy said she can deadlift 225 pounds and hopes her story inspires people of all ages.
