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Woman fights off man who broke into home, threatened her with knife

ATLANTA — A woman fought off a knife-wielding man who broke into her southeast Atlanta home Saturday night.

Adrien Gass said she was terrified when the man burst into her home on Memorial Drive and chased her with a knife.

"I said, 'I have money.' He said, 'I don't want no money. I want the car and I want your life.' And I said, 'Not today,'" Gass said.

The mother of three told Channel 2's Matt Johnson that she threw a piece of furniture at the intruder, who chased her down the hall.

"I know he's bleeding because I attacked him," she said.

Gass said she locked herself in a bedroom. The attacker kept kicking the door and it hit her in the mouth while she held on to it.

"All my might, yes. I would not let that door go," she said.

Gass said she escaped by jumping out a window and the intruder left with nothing.

"I lifted up the window and pushed out and ran as fast as I could to the neighbor's house," she said.

Atlanta police said just three minutes earlier, a quarter of a mile away on Allendale Drive, someone carjacked a husband and wife at gunpoint.

"He was in the car, got the keys and gone," Tris Siciginano
said.

Siciginano said the thief stole her husband's car and she believes the two crimes are related.

"It was too much in one night and the descriptions are so close," she said.

Police have not said if the crimes are related, but neighbors said they are staying vigilant.

No arrests have been made.

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