KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — What was a quiet night for Ellen Roy and her family became a scary situation as a man broke into their home.
At 2:15 a.m. on Friday, Knoxville Police officers were dispatched to Half Barrel after I saiah Shuman, 21, was asked to leave the bar and threatened to kill an employee according to KPD. He then made his way down 17th Street before crashing into a retaining wall. That’s when, police said, he ran to the Mechanicsville community and broke into Ellen Roy’s home.
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“All of a sudden I heard a crash, bang, boom. I jumped up out of my bed and I saw my son tackling this young man at my front door,” Roy said. “They were bickering back and forth as my son was telling him you gotta get out of my house. So, I got up and looked at the guy’s face and say ‘Who are you, you don’t live here.’ I said to my son ‘Do you know him?’, he said ‘No mom, I’m trying to get him out’.”
She added that while Shuman was in the home, her son was assaulted…