PORT ANGELES –– A Port Angeles man used a decorative sword to defend his home from an attacker Sunday, police say.
Sundray Generome Korsmo, 39, a transient, was charged Wednesday in Clallam County Superior Court with first-degree burglary and assault with a deadly weapon.
Korsmo remained in the Clallam County jail Thursday, held on $50,000 bond.
Because it was Father’s Day, the Port Angeles man had decided he would set up a stand to offer free coffee and tobacco outside his East Second Street home, court documents say.
After he returned from getting supplies at a store, Korsmo allegedly charged toward him and the man retreated into his home, according to a probable-cause statement filed by police.
Korsmo followed him into the house, pulled a knife from his pocket, opened it and then assumed a fighting stance, police said in court documents.
The man ran farther into his home and unsheathed his son’s decorative samurai sword.
He struck Korsmo’s left forearm, court documents say.
Korsmo ran out the front door of the home. He threw a knife toward the man as he was shutting the front door, but it struck only the door, court documents say.
“I thought he was going to kill me,” the man told police, according to court documents, “that he was going to stab me 40 or 50 times.”
Korsmo sought treatment at Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles for his wound from the dull, decorative sword, police said.
Police arrested him there. In the report, they describe him as highly agitated when officers arrested him and placed him in two sets of handcuffs.
Korsmo told the officers repeatedly this would be his third strike, according to court documents.
Korsmo was previously convicted of first-degree burglary and second-degree assault in 1996 and another second-degree assault in 2010.
Because of Washington’s “three-strikes” law, called the persistent offender law, Korsmo is facing a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.
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Reporter Jesse Major can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 56250, or at jmajor@peninsuladailynews.com.
