A California woman wearing only a flannel shirt had to climb out her
bedroom window and onto the rooftop in a desperate attempt to escape a home
intruder early Wednesday.
Rivera called police and then scrambled out the window of her two-story bungalow, which is just blocks from Venice Beach.
Melora Rivera was in bed when she heard a commotion. Christian Hicks,
29, who neighbors said is homeless, allegedly broke the panel of Rivera's glass
front door to get inside, according to reports. Rivera called police and then
scrambled out the window of her two-story bungalow, which is just blocks from
Venice Beach.
A woman fled onto her
roof when a transient broke into her home Wednesday in Venice, Calif.
Melora Rivera says she managed to crawl out of a window Wednesday
morning, in order to run and hide on her roof after Christian Hicks, 29,
allegedly broke into her home.
"Once I saw him in the house I knew we both couldn't be
there," Rivera told CBS Los Angeles. "I knew I didn't want to have a
confrontation with him of any sort not knowing what his intention was."
When LAPD officers arrived two minutes after they were dispatched they found
Rivera on her phone cowering under a rooftop overhang. Unaware that Hicks was
also on the roof at that point, police ordered Rivera to come down, Venice 311 reported.
Photos taken at the scene show a frightened Rivera sitting by her
window as Hicks menacingly peered over the rooftop peak, apparently unaware of
where Rivera was hiding.
Firefighters arrived with a ladder and an officer, with his gun drawn,
climbed onto the rooftop to cover her escape.
Hicks was arrested and held on $50,000 bail. He has a court appearance
Friday.
Cops reportedly detained Hicks earlier in the day following a 7:30 a.m.
complaint of a man in a residential yard, but did not arrest him then.
"I saw this guy this morning in handcuffs," neighbor
Alexandria Thompson told CBS. "I've seen him in my yard. I called the
police."
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