For the record, THJ does not condone violence of any kind… but to all fellow men out there – young and old alike let this sound as a lesson to you all. I beckon you not to tell lies or cheat on your girls unless you wish a similar fate on yourselves.
A 30-year-old Washington state woman is being charged with attempted murder for trying to kill her boyfriend Alex Lovell in his sleep at night with a samurai sword. Professional gamer Alex Lovell’s two yearlong girlfriend said she suspected he was cheating on her after she found the dating app “Tinder” on his phone. She said she also found a woman’s red hair in their shower drain.
The Washington Post reports Emily Javier, the girlfriend in question, had hair dyed green and with the alleged evidence against boyfriend, Javier told police she did what she thought was the answer: that is, she went to the mall and bought a samurai sword.
The relationship reached a crisis point on March 2. According to the police affidavit, Lovell came home but ignored his girlfriend. She allegedly decided to go through with the attack, taping the sword and two knives to the bed. Javier also told police she hid Lovell’s phone so he could not call for help. Emily said to the police, “I thought, I was gonna stab him while he was sleeping,”
When Lovell finally went to sleep, she reached for the sword, and started cutting Lovell over and over as he slept. Alex Lovell says he woke up and his lifetime of watching kung fu movies, along with martial arts training, possibly helped him stop the attack.
“I told her I loved her, and she was killing me. She needed to call police, or I was going to die,” Lovell told Oregon Live.
Police said the woman called 911 and told them that she had stabbed her boyfriend and that they needed to hurry because she thought he was dead. When police did arrive at the scene on March 3, they found Lovell curled up in the blood-spattered bedroom, according to the probable cause affidavit filed by police in Camas, a Washington state town northeast of Portland, Ore. Surprisingly; he survived the attack despite serious injuries.
Doctors were able to reattach Lovell’s fingers where they were nearly hacked off at the base. He also suffered wounds to his feet, legs, torso, neck and head. His right arm is in a cast. Members of the local gaming scene set up a GoFundMe page for his medical bills. The fund is just $2,000 shy of its $10,000 goal after 10 days.
“The feeling I had when I won the fight with my bare hands is just absolutely the best feeling,” Lovell boasted last week from the hospital. “I’ve played all the sports, won big games, landed some decent tricks on my snowboard. This was better.”
“I was just so proud for beating this samurai wannabe crazy lady with hate in her heart,” the 29-year-old told the Oregonian in relation to his girlfriend. “I’ve been preparing my whole life for something like this”, he said.
Lovell reiterates that he was not unfaithful to Javier, his girlfriend but accepts he did spend a lot of time playing video games and training for his gaming competitions, reason why he barely had time to hang out with his girlfriend, and let alone another girl.
Javier is charged with attempted murder and she’s been whisked off to the Clark County Jail on a $350,000 bail. Javier remains in custody. Her attorney did not return an email for comment. She will stand trial in May.
She has already pleaded not guilty this week to first-degree attempted murder. While being thankful that Lovell could survive, let’s all see how effective the US Justice System will be in this case as it develops overtime.
