Successful celebrity dentist Dr Steven Lin was killed by police after violently assaulting two women, Chloe Paul and Christine Campeau, at their Sydney flat complex
Two women have told how they were left fearing for their lives after being brutally targeted by a disgraced celebrity dentist who was shot dead by police while hopped up on drugs.
Chloe Paul and Christine Campeau were violently beaten by Dr Steven Lin, 41, a successful Australian dentist who had taken part in several TED talks, owned two surgeries, and was a health podcast staple. He had wandered into their flat complex at the St Neot Ave building in Potts Point in Sydney, Australia, at around 10.50pm on Tuesday morning while armed with a knife.
Lin stabbed Ms Campeau in the face after encountering her in the laundry room, and left her badly beaten before forcing his way into Ms Paul’s unit, where he demanded the mum-of-three hand over cash before holding her down, beating and choking her.
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Ms Campeau told 9Now Australia she feared she was “going to die” as Lin’s blows rained down on her, adding that she felt up to a dozen “nonstop” hits. She said: “He went to pretend to hand me the keys and that’s when he just smashed my face so hard. There was about maybe 10 to 12 blows, they were nonstop … my forehead hit the wall and that’s when I thought, s**t, I’m going to die.”
Ms Paul remembered the dentist’s “two hands on my neck”, but celebrity photographer, who is also a trained boxer, remembered key directions from her instructor to “go for the balls”.
She said: “But my coach has always said, ‘If you can’t win a boxing fight, you go for the balls!’ So I did. Whatever I did, he got off me.” Police arrived at her home and initially attempted to Taser Lin, but this proved “ineffective”, and an officer was forced to shoot at Lin as he lunged at the responders.
Describing the moment he was gunned down, Ms Paul said there was “relief” as an eerie silence descended over the scene. She said: “When I heard the gunshot … there was this relief.”
The two women, who have since been dubbed “super mums” were rushed to hospital, where they underwent surgery for their extensive facial injuries, including a broken nose. They bravely took to Instagram in a joint post a week following the attack, and have since declared Lin “picked the two strongest woman in this building”.
Ms Campeau told A Current Affair: “You know when people say, ‘wrong time, wrong place’? I don’t believe [that]. We were chosen. He’s picked the two strongest women in this building just so he’ll never, ever hurt any other woman again.”
Dentist Lin’s death at the hands of police followed a notable downward spiral for the celebrity dentist, who had a massive social media following, large family with six children, and lived in a AUD$5million (£2.6million) home. He faced eight separate court hearings in the year before his death, having been accused of stalking, choking and assault while being addicted to methamphetamine.