MARIETTA, Ga. — A Marietta woman says she’s thankful to be alive after a stranger tried kicking down her door and breaking into her home.
KeeKee Edwards told Channel 2 Cobb County Bureau Chief Michele Newell that she heard someone messing with the door handle. When she looked out of the peephole, someone was covering it up.
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“When I went to my ring camera, it was covered up. I went to the peephole and the peephole was covered up,” she remembered.
Edwards later learned the man was hiding in the corner across from her apartment before trying to break in.
Exclusive video from the Ring doorbell camera shows a man police identified as Andrew Ash trying to get in.
“He was kicking it, pushing it, all I could feel was this right here,” she described.
On other side of the door, Edwards was fighting back to keep him outside.
“I’m holding all of my weight, on this door just like this so he wouldn’t get in,” Edwards said.
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She says it felt like the longest five minutes of her life as she pushed back while on the phone with 911.
“I was thinking like, ‘I can’t die, I got my kids, I got my grandkids,’” she said.
The video from her Ring camera shows the moment Marietta police showed up and rescued her.
“I went outside and looked I think there was about 10 police cars so that made me know that I’m proud to be a Marietta citizen,” she described.
When police arrested Ash, they say they found a metal set of locking pliers on him.
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