An emergency room nurse who arrived home Wednesday night to find a strange man inside her Southeast Portland house ********* him to death with her hands after a violent struggle.
Neighbors say Susan E. Kuhnhausen, 51, had just gotten off work at Providence Portland Medical Center and was still in her scrubs when she returned to her tidy home in the 7900 block of Southeast Alder Street shortly after 6 p.m.
Police say there was no obvious signs of ****** entry in the front of the house. So Kuhnhausen was surprised to find an intruder inside. The stranger, neighbors say, was armed with a hammer. But the veteran emergency nurse went into crisis mode and escaped with only a few bruises and scrapes.
After the struggle, she ran to a neighboring house for help, and the neighbor called 9-1-1 at 6:51 p.m. By the time police arrived, 59-year-old Edward Dalton Haffey,, a convicted felon with a long record, lay dead in her home.
