A surveillance camera installed in a Tennessee home captured the shocking moments that a mother went through when she was forced to barricade herself and her 2-year-old son in the bathroom after a deranged man broke through a window and crawled inside.
Keane Winchester took it to Facebook and shared the chilling video that the surveillance cameras outside her Lake County home captured on Oct. 14, when the stranger smashed one of her windows while she and her toddler son were in their living room.
The footage showed the screaming man repeatedly banging on the back door, trying to break it down before punching a window. He then breaks the window with a piece of firewood and climbs inside.
“I heard a very loud bang and it just wasn’t a normal bang, and then all of the sudden he started screaming ‘Help, help,’” Winchester told 7news.
“At first I was like, ‘what is that?’ We have cameras and usually, they notify me and then I guess I didn’t hear it or just wasn’t paying attention to it but after that, he all of the sudden started punching the door and the windows.”
“And then once I realized he was in my house screaming, My first instinct is my gun’s not near me, I don’t have anything to protect us, this guy’s armed, so I grabbed my baby, and we ran to our master bathroom.”
She said the man ended up right outside her bedroom.
“I barricaded the bathroom door and had my baby there trying to get him to just be calm and relax while I was calling the cops.”
“I was shaken. I wasn’t crying just yet. I was just breathing very hard shaking, begging the dispatcher to please get his cops here please.”
Winchester said that it only took about 10 minutes for the police to arrive.
“He was laying down right beside my bedroom door just laying on the floor just kind of bleeding out from where he climbed in my window,” she said.
“They had to drag him out of the house.”
“Being at such a good location in such a nice neighborhood we thought, ‘We were in a safe location,’ but you can’t really base it off of that,” she said.
The police later informed Winchester that the man was on drugs and that he knew the people who lived in the home before she and her family moved in last December.
She said doesn’t feel comfortable staying alone in the home after the incident and that she and her family are now staying with her mother-in-law.
“Moving forward we’re just wanting to hopefully be able to go home or me go home and not have to know every sound I hear is going to give me a panic attack,” said Winchester.
The suspect is undergoing treatment at a local hospital and has not yet been charged.
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