By Mark Vester
Tragedy has stricken boxing yet again as one of the most popular female boxers of all-time, and certainly the one who led the way for thousands of others, Christy Martin, was shot and stabbed by her husband on Tuesday, according to a report by Anika Myers Palm of the Orlando's Sentinel paper.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office reports that Martin, 42, flagged down a motorist near Apopka's Deer Lake subdivision about 6:45 p.m. The motorist took her to Florida Hospital North, where doctors determined that she had been shot and stabbed in the torso and left leg. Martin told authorities that her attacker was her husband, 66-year-old James Martin.
What led to the violent attack has not been disclosed by police. Investigators went to the couple's Apopka home, but he was gone and they have yet to find him. A search is ongoing to track him down.
