Police are searching for two people who bound an 85-year-old woman with duct tape and robbed her inside her southwest Atlanta apartment.
Julia Phillips told police she tried to fight off the man who broke into her home Saturday evening and stole her two flat-screen televisions, Channel 2 Action News reported.
“I tried to fight him but he’s just too strong,” Phillips said. She said the man was accompanied by another person.
Phillips said she opened her door Saturday evening when someone knocked asking for her granddaughter. That’s when a man she has never seen pushed his way inside her apartment.
“He put his hand in his pocket and got some tape out and put it all over my nose and face and over my eyes, wrapped it around my head,” Phillips told Channel 2.
When she refused to put her hands behind her back, she said the man pulled out a knife.
“He come around my neck and said ‘I’ll cut you if you holler! Don’t holler!’ And I said, ‘I’m not going to holler,’” Phillips said.
Phillips said she is scraped up from where the man dragged her on the floor.
A neighbor upstairs said he saw a man and a woman trying to leave the building with two TVs. He called police after hearing Phillips' call for help, according to Channel 2.
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