MARIETTA, Ga. — A Marietta mother told Channel 2 Action News she was shocked to find an armed robbery suspect inside her dog's room on Tuesday with her children at home.
Police told Channel 2's Matt Johnson Trent Rhodes, 29, robbed a Dollar Tree store on Powder Springs at gunpoint with customers inside. The robbery happened at around 5 p.m.
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After the suspect escaped, he was found at Shanetta Stevens' home about an hour later.
"It was a very scary thing. It makes you feel uneasy," Stevens told Johnson.
Stevens said he cut through the woods to get to her neighborhood on Chestnut Hill drive and inside her open garage. She said she's thankful he never got inside her house.
"It made you feel very uneasy about things that could happen in your own neighborhood. I guess, at your own house," she said.
Dollar Tree customers & employees feared for their lives yesterday during an armed robbery that ended with a suspect hiding in a Marietta family's garage. Details @ 5:45. pic.twitter.com/yRyXpHqma1
— Matt Johnson (@MattWSB) November 22, 2017
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