Troy Grandmother Faces Intruder

Having your home broken into can be a scary thing, but what if your home while it happens? 

Millicent Holland has lived in Troy for 50 years.

It was 1:30 a.m. when her dog Pepper noticed someone approaching the house.

“The dog was barking and I know when she barks like that there’s someone at the door,” Holland said.

Police say the suspect was a highly intoxicated 26-year-old woman. Holland says a woman she had never seen before was pounding on the front door and shaking the door knob and demanding to be let inside.

“No! You can’t come in,” Holland told the woman through the door, then ran to wake her son who was spending the night.

Meanwhile, the woman ran around the back of the house and opened the sliding glass door.

“We were both standing in the hallway and and I said 'oh, she’s gone!' Then ‘oh my gosh! she’s in the house," Holland recalled. “Oh my gosh she’s coming she’s coming!"

Holland called 911, and her son grabbed a gun and pointed it at the woman until police came, which thankfully was very quickly.

The woman continued to be aggressive even once police arrived, fighting and spitting, according to police.