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Philippine action star kills 2 robbers who invaded his home
Associated Press
July 18, 2002 07:20:00
MANILA, Philippines - A Philippine action film star said he killed two armed men who robbed his house and allegedly tried to rape two of his daughters Thursday.
Sonny Parsons, 44, said six men armed with pistols barged into his house in suburban Marikina city early Thursday as his maid opened the gate. The intruders then tied everyone up.
"One of them poked a gun to my head but it did not go off," Parsons said in radio and television interviews aired across the Philippines.
Parsons, whose real name is Jose Parsons Nabiula, said the men took money, jewelry, cellular phones and a video camera. They then entered his daughters' bedroom, tied them up and started undressing them.
Parsons, a former police special agent trained in martial arts, said he duped the intruders into believing a police patrol would be having breakfast at his house, prompting the gunmen to panic and leave.
The maid then untied herself and Parsons, he said. He retrieved his .45-caliber pistol and chased the gunmen, who were boarding a passenger jeepney, a public transit vehicle they commandeered.
"I was focused on neutralizing these people because I know they would harm many others," he later told The Associated Press.
"I was angry and I was in a very difficult situation in which I did not know whether I would live. It was 'Kill or be killed,' " he said.
Parsons and the robbers then traded gunfire.
"The lamp post I hid behind was riddled with bullets, but I told myself, 'It's now out of my hands,' " Parsons said.
Parsons said he shot two men in the head, killing one. When he and a third robber ran out of bullets, they beat each other with pistol butts.
Parsons said he then wrested away the robber's knife and slit his throat.
The other three robbers escaped.
Parsons, who starred in 29 action films and directed four, said some neighbors believed he was shooting another movie until they saw real blood. Most of Parsons' films were B movies in which he played good guys fighting criminals. The last one was released three years ago.
Parson also was a member of the singing group Hagibis, patterned after the Village People.
Police are investigating. Marikina police chief Cipriano Querol said a similar robbery by the same number of robbers occurred in another community several days ago.
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