Michelle Yi Wiki – Michelle Yi Biography
Michelle Yi, who competed on CBS reality TV’s “Survivor: Fiji” in 2006, was stabbed and beaten with a metal baton by a homeless woman last Thursday in Santa Monica, California.
Bloody images of the attack’s aftermath have now been shared on social media by digital personality Murtz Jaffer, who bills himself as the “World’s Foremost Reality TV Expert.”
Age
She was 37 years old.
Incident Details
According to People, authorities said the alleged perpetrator had attacked two others before Yi and appeared to be off her medication. Yi, 37, arrived at the pilates studio where she was teaching a class shortly before 6 a.m., but as her students started to come, she noticed a disheveled woman heading toward the door.
“She was yelling all sorts of things like, ‘You stole my identity,’ and ‘You’re a prostitute,'” Yi told the outlet. “Santa Monica has a homeless problem, and I’ve dealt with this type of thing before. So I told her, ‘Ma’am, you can’t be here. You need to leave.'”
Michelle Yi Statment
Yi said the woman didn’t budge but rather lunged at her with a knife in one hand and a metal baton in the other.
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“She stabbed me in the left bicep. And then she hit me on the right hand with the baton. My Apple Watch shattered,” said Yi adding that the suspect then used the baton to strike her in the head, splitting her face open.
“Blood was everywhere,” she said.
Condition
Yi was taken to the hospital and received several stitches on her face. She also suggested the attack may have been racially motivated.
“I can’t say why she attacked me, of all people. But she was a white lady who attacked three people that morning. Another victim was an elderly Asian man walking his dog, and the third was also a person of color.
I can’t prove whether it was racially motivated or not, but she was screaming all sorts of awful things at me. The facts are what they are,” said Yi.
Police did not charge her with a hate crime. “It appeared that she was mentally unstable and maybe off her medication. That probably caused her to do what she did.”
Yi said physically; she was “on the mend. Emotionally, it’s harder, but I should be OK.”
Suspect Arrested
Police apprehended the woman, charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon, and remained in custody.
“When we arrived, the suspect was still on the scene,” Lieutenant Rudy Flores, a Santa Monica Police Department spokesman, told the publication. “The officers took her into custody and interviewed the victims and witnesses.”
