A Michigan woman wakes up to find a strange man searching through her bedroom dresser drawers. The 55-year-old woman then jumped out of bed and chased the intruder out of her home.
It happened Tuesday at 3:45 a.m. in the 1200 block of Adams Street in Monroe Township.
The victim doesn't want to release her name or show her face on camera because she is shaken up and scared. However, she wants other women to beware and calls the whole ordeal creepy.
"I don't know if I actually heard a little noise or if it was just that sense of somebody creeping around in your bedroom," the victim tells 13abc.
She says she had been asleep in bed with her boyfriend and has no idea how long the intruder was inside her home.
"I screamed and kinda ran at him," she says. "I called him a name very loudly and said, ‘I'll kill you.' I ran after him and ran him out to the street."
She says he ran south on Adams street and it was dark so she lost sight of him, but she believes he may have gone through some trees which leads into a different subdivision.
The victim says the man got inside her home through the kitchen window which she left open with a fan because it was hot.
She also found footprints in her garden right next to her bedroom window.
The woman called police and went door-to-door warning her neighbors.
"Felt very violated," she says. "I wanted to alert them too that don't let your guard down, make sure you keep windows locked if there's a way for somebody to get in. It's a really nice, quiet area where I live. I've lived here for over ten years."
She says after talking to police and alerting her neighbors she went through her house to find what was missing. She says he took some money, about 60 bucks in cash, some costume jewelry, and her blood pressure pills.
"I just feel very lucky that even though I did find somebody in my house, it could've been a lot worse than it was," the victim tells 13abc. "At least I'm still alive."
She says the intruder is white with light brown hair, looked to be in his early to mid-20s, fairly thin, wearing jeans and a red t-shirt.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Department says the case remains under investigation.
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