Atlanta police are searching for a man they say went to a woman’s house in Buckhead disguised as a flower deliveryman and then attacked her when she opened her front door.
The victim told police the man was carrying flowers, but when she went to accept the delivery last month, he fired a stun gun at her, according to an Atlanta police report.
The unidentified man arrived at the home in the 900 block of Canterbury Lane in a white van about 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 11, the report said. The suspect had a large bouquet of flowers and knocked on the victim’s door.
Surveillance video posted online shows the man clad in a white shirt and khaki shorts climbing out of a van, pulling a large cluster of bright red flowers from the back seat and walking up a driveway to a home.
The woman told police the man hid his face with the flowers when she answered the door, stepped inside her home and asked her for her name. When she gave it, he pulled out a stun gun and deployed it on her, the police report said.
“(The victim) stated that she was able to fight through the tasing,” the police report said. “Once the tasing was over, (the victim) had pulled out one of the tasing darts out of her skin.”
Police said the woman’s two sons were upstairs during the incident. After ripping the stun gun’s dart out of her torso, she ran upstairs to get them, the police report said.
The man then drove away in the white van.
An investigation is ongoing.
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