We had this happen in one of the building I run. A guy beat his girl friend, she waited until he was asleep & poured a pot of boiling water on him & as he ran away beat him with a ball pean hammer all the way down three floors of stairs and out the front of the building....in 30 years of working in low income buildings on the south side of chicago I have seen some of the worse things people can do to each other.
