A Special education teacher narrowly escaped death after a confrontation with a burglar in her home, in the middle of her zoom class sessions. – By Gerald Gekara.
Amanda Zupancic, a special education teacher at Kirtland Local Schools, Cleveland USA was suddenly interrupted by a loud noise while she was taking her student through her third session of the day.
“I heard glass shattering downstairs, I was like, hold on, I think someone is breaking into my house, just joking. I didn’t think anyone would be breaking into my house in the middle of the day,” she said.
But that is exactly what was happening.
“There was a man walking through my baby gate with a knife in his hand walking upstairs,” said Zupancic. “He started threatening me, yelling at me, calling me names. He grabbed me upstairs into my bedroom.”
The whole time, Zupancic’s student and his family were still on that zoom call listening from Lake County.
Immediately, the family called 911 and alerted the authorities over what was happening at their teacher’s home.
“The teacher that teaches my son, somebody broke into her house we saw it on the zoom,” said the student’s dad.
Zupancic told the man he could have her car keys but they were downstairs. He agreed she could go and get them. She said, instead of getting the keys, she let her two dogs out.
“When I reached for my keys, instead I opened the gate and I have a German shepherd and a Great Dane-boxer mix. So the German Shepherd stood between myself and this guy, and the Great Dane Boxer mix went at him,” she said.
She then chased the man away with a pair of scissors, screaming her ordeal to the neighbourhood.
“I just grabbed a pair of scissors and I started chasing him with this pair of scissors, in my house shoes, down the street, yelling ‘help me, help me, this guy robbed me,’” she said.
Zupancic said a local contractor working on a house in her neighborhood saw the encounter and tackled the man to the ground and detained him until Cleveland police arrived.
Charles Derosett is charged with aggravated robbery and felonious assault as well as other charges. He is a convicted felon, previously serving time behind bars for aggravated robbery.
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