The Prologue

The victim was a vagrant, living in the woods near Blythe's dojo in Dumfries, Virginia[3][4]. He was known to local police and had been a nuisance to a number of local businesses that day by stealing food from the Pizza Hut and reaching into customer's purses at the local drug store[5]. The victim then walked into the local Napa Auto Parts store and mentioned to the staff that he was going to walk into the dojo across the road and offer to teach. Even though the employees advised him not to do that, he went ahead and entered the dojo, Blythe's Shindokan Karate Studio[6], in the Dumfries Shopping Center, which is no longer there today[7].

There was a class in progress at the time but Blythe asked the attending junior students to leave the room and only the black belts to remain[8].

It's at this point that the video camera is started.