A woman who used a samurai-style sword to murder her wife and brutally attack her mother-in-law in Los Angeles County last year has been sentenced to 35 years to life in prison.

The grisly murder on July 18, 2024, played out inside a residence on the 300 block of South Huntington Avenue in San Dimas.

Responding deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arrived at the scene at around 3:30 p.m. to find the victim’s mother, Hsi Wei Huang, waving them down as she walked the street, blood visible on her right leg and hands, carrying a katana sword.

She immediately laid down the sword and raised her hands when ordered to do so by deputies and later led them to the scene of the gruesome murder.

L.A. County Deputy Dist. Att. Brittany Saleeby told jurors that Huang’s daughter, 4

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