MESA, Ariz. (KSAZ) – A Mesa woman had a frightening encounter with an intruder at her home. The woman said the man broke into her home with an ax, and she has the pictures and video to prove it.
The incident happened at a home near Dobson and Southern in Mesa, at around 5:30 p.m. Sunday. The woman is a nurse who works the night shift, and was sleeping when a man rang her doorbell. It was the doorbell security camera that captured video of the man, before he broke in and threatened Erika Grijalva with an ax.
“Edgy. I’m still scared,” said Grijalva. “I heard the crash. This huge crashing noise and someone came in and I heard a guy’s voice and he said, ‘Is anyone here, is anyone here?'”
Grijalva immediately ran into her bedroom’s bathroom, locked the door, and called police. The man made his way to the area, and Grijalva told him she was calling police, and he needed to leave. Grijalva said the man let her out of the bathroom, asked her for money, and told her to look around the house with him for things to take.
“He says, ‘I rang the doorbell and you didn’t answer the door. All I wanted was a couple of bucks. You didn’t answer the door’,” said Grijalva.
Grijalva said after taking a laptop and tablet, he said one final thing before leaving through the same door he broke to get in.
“He turns around and motions to the floor and he says, ‘I’ll pay for this. Don’t worry I’ll pay for this,'” said Grijalva.
Mesa Police confirm this is an open investigation, but they still haven’t located the man in the video.
Anyone with information should call police.
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he should have “paid for this” with his life
he has no idea how lucky he was busting in her door, rather than mine
Wow! “Wendy,….I am home!”.
She got lucky this time, oddly enough through the good graces of an axe-wielding intruder who settled for what he got.
Despite her luck this time, she’ll probably still rely on her “security” camera and useless revenue generators to capture her demise and cleanup next time.
She’s probably shopping for a new tablet and laptop as we speak, instead of an equalizer like she should be.
Dependence is a state of mind.
“Mesa Police confirm this is an open investigation, but they still haven’t located the man in the video.”
Had that been my home, the Po-Lees would have found the assailant – right where he died after I shot him in the face.