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"You don't expect to hear that someone you know killed a guy with a samurai sword"

I nominate Little E.

"With the 3- to 5-foot-long, razor-sharp weapon in hand, police say, Pontolillo crept toward the noise... struck the intruder no more than twice, police say, nearly severing his left hand and inflicting what police termed a 'spear laceration'."

A "laceration" seems like a swiping motion and a "spear" a stab.