Woman fights off knife-wielding intruder

A woman escaped after she says an intruder chased her with a knife in her southeast Atlanta home Saturday night, according to police.

Adrien Gass, a mother of three, told Channel 2 Action News she offered the man money, but he wanted more.

Adrien Gass told police a home intruder chased her through her home with a knife. (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)

"He said, 'I don't want no money. I want the car and I want your life,'” Gass told Channel 2. “And I said, 'Not today.’"

Gass said she threw a piece of furniture at the intruder before locking herself in a bedroom, where she later escaped from a window on Memorial Drive, according to Channel 2.

Atlanta police told the news station that just three minutes earlier on the nearby Allendale Drive, someone carjacked a husband and wife at gunpoint.

No arrests have been made in either incident.