ATLANTA – A person tried to assault a mom and forcibly enter her residence as her daughter was simply ft away. It occurred on Saturday at a home alongside Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard close to Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway in northwest Atlanta. It was all caught by home surveillance video.
Tarzine Jackson says she was working at her desk. “I heard some commotion on the aspect of the home,” Jackson mentioned.
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She regarded exterior and noticed a stranger consuming water from the spigot on the aspect of her home. She advised him to cease and even supplied him one thing to drink. “I’ll provide you with a water bottle,” she recalled telling the person.
However, the man grew offended. “He begins cussing me out and coming as much as the entrance of the porch. I’m identical to, ‘What are you doing?’” she mentioned.
He then tried to go inside her home. “He tried to interrupt down the entrance door,” Jackson mentioned.
The man grabbed the cat scratching submit on her entrance porch and smashed her entrance window. “He threw that by the window, bought glass in every single place,” Jackson mentioned.
Home surveillance video caught a person violently smashing the home windows to a northwest Atlanta home after a quick confrontation with a mom who lives there. (Supplied)
Shards of glass grazed her 16-year-old daughter. That made Jackson livid. “I went into mama-bear mode, and I went after him,” Jackson mentioned.
Jackson rushed exterior with a Taser wand. “He tried to seize it and he bought shocked on his hand,” Jackson mentioned.
Home surveillance video caught a person violently smashing the home windows to a northwest Atlanta home after a quick confrontation with a mom who lives there. (Supllied)
The would-be intruder didn’t hand over and hurled particles at Jackson. “He threw a water bottle at me. It hit me,” Jackson mentioned. “He began throwing items of the fence from subsequent door.”
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Jackson says a number of neighbors ultimately chased him off. Police arrested Anthony Dixon a short while later. “It was lot of adrenaline going. You ‘F-d’ round, now you’re going to search out out,” Jackson mentioned.
Home surveillance video caught a person violently smashing the home windows to a northwest Atlanta home after a quick confrontation with a mom who lives there. (Supplied)
Jackson says she truly feels compassion for Dixon. She hopes he can get mental-health counseling.
Dixon is charged with damaging property and obstructing officers.