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<p>BROOKSVILLE (FOX 13) - Brooksville police arrested a man they say was swinging swords at customers in Walmart on Broad Street.</p> <p>The responding officers were called by the store's manager, who said someone was threatening customers in the parking lot. When they got there, they found Shannon Schenck carrying two swords and appearing to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol, the police department said.</p>

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - Police say the man who used a sword in a fight was acting in self-defense. No names have been released in this bizarre story. It happened at 4th and Lincoln in Terre Haute over the weekend. Police say a man in a car went inside his home to grab a wooden club and tried to hit another man in the leg who was parked nearby. That man used a sword to block the club from hitting him again and that's how he sliced off three of the man's fingers with his sword. Police say the...

Police are investigating reports of severed fingers, after a stabbing in the Uptown area overnight. Police arrived at 31st and Lyndale Aves. S. in Minneapolis around 3 a.m., finding two victims that appeared to have been stabbed with a two-and-a-half foot Samurai-style sword. The two victims were taken to Hennepin County Medical Center. Later, two more suspects then showed up at HCMC with stab wounds, and police took those people into custody. The suspects taken into custody were identified as Hossem Chalbi, 18, and Mohammed Khalil, 29. "I saw the first guy rolling down the stairs at me completely on...