

She quickly discovered an aptitude for the sport and began hitting the gym multiple times a week.

Murphy started powerlifting in 2008 after seeing a sign at her local YMCA advertising a competition. 1gr8KfWZ4d- Rochester NY Police November 25, 2019 Murphy standing with some of the officers that responded to her home. Murphy is tough as nails & fended off the intruder. Murphy standing shoulder to shoulder with Genesee Section Officers after an intruder attempted to break into her home. "I think he was happy when he went in the ambulance because I sent him in the ambulance. Murphy thinks he was probably relieved to be out of the house.
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"He's laying down already because I had really did a number on that man. He's dead weight."Īt that point, the police arrived in response to Murphy's earlier call. And I'm trying to help him get out of the house, but he's too heavy. Though Murphy said she can deadlift 225 pounds, she struggled to drag the man out of the house. Next, she said, she took a broom and whacked him some more.īy that time, the intruder was ready to leave. Unphased, Murphy said, she used the metal legs of the table to keep hitting him.Īfter jumping on him a couple times, Murphy ran to the kitchen, grabbed a bottle of baby shampoo and squirted it on the man's face as he tried to get up. "I took that table and I went to working on him," she said. Who said she works out at her local YMCA almost every day.Īs Murphy tells it, she used a barrage of household items to attack the intruder, beginning with her own table. "He picked the wrong house to break into." But guess what, I'm tough," she said, bearing her muscular arms. "It's kind of semi-dark and I'm alone, and I'm old. Then, she said, he became angry and broke through the door. Murphy told WHAM she called the police but wouldn't let the man in her house. Willie Murphy said she was getting ready for bed Thursday night when a man began pounding on her door, urging her to call an ambulance for him, CNN affiliate WHAM reported. A man broke into the Rochester, New York, home of an 82-year-old grandmother.
