DeKalb County police are looking for a man who broke in to a woman’s Lithonia home and stabbed her multiple times in an attempted robbery.
Carla Catalon-Scott, 52, was lying in bed Monday, when a man forced his way in through a basement window and demanded money from her, according to a police report.
She told Channel 2 Action News the stranger stabbed her in the face four times, fracturing both her cheek bones and bruising her.
“I screamed, of course, and then I was just kind of stunned, like what’s going on,” Catalon-Scott said.
Catalon-Scott told the man she didn’t have any money and he stabbed her with a steak knife, according to the report.
The man grabbed Catalon-Scott’s gun from her night stand, shot at her and left with her gun.
“I thought I was dying, I really did,” she told Channel 2, “because I couldn’t figure out where all he had stabbed me.”
Robert Scott, the victim’s husband, said he saw the man 10 to 15 minutes before he left the home, according to the police report.
“He passed the house, I went into the cul-de-sac and I sat and I looked at him,” Scott told Channel 2. “…I said to my niece, he should be in school.”
Scott identified the man from a neighbor’s video survelliance footage.
DeKalb County police are still looking for the suspect. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477 or visit crimestoppers.org.
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