Tomahawk Throwing Champ Fends Off Burglar Who Woke Her

A suspected burglar is now in custody after trying to rob a California woman who happened to be a professional ax thrower. Robin Irvine was sound asleep early Saturday morning when Nicholas Ulloa, 22, snuck into her home in Hemet, Calif., according to a statement issued by Hemet police. She woke to find the suspected burglar reportedly trying to swipe a wrist watch directly from her wrist, the statement reports. “I sat right up and I screamed at the top of my lungs,” Irvine told ABC’s Los Angeles affiliate KABC. Irvine, a “Tomahawk Throwing Champion,” quickly armed herself with a throwing ax she keeps close to her bedside and managed to chase Ulloa out of her home, police said.