COVINGTON, Ga. — Covington police are looking for a man they say attempted a home invasion overnight while pretending to be making a DoorDash delivery.
They say that a masked man walked up to a woman’s home at the Wellington Ridge Apartments at 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
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Video shared with Channel 2 Action News shows the unidentified suspect ringing the woman’s video doorbell.
“Who’s at my door?” she can be heard asking as dogs bark.
“DoorDash,” the suspect replies.
After a little more back-and-forth, the suspect tells the woman that he is making a delivery for Chris, which the woman says is not her.
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Police say the video shows the man speaking to someone else outside of the camera’s frame.
Investigators are still searching for the suspect.
Channel 2’s Tyisha Fernandes spoke with the woman on Wednesday afternoon.
She said when he started hiding his face, she knew something suspicious was going on.
“He walked up and saw the Ring camera, and then he backed up to the side,” the woman who asked not to be identified said.
She said she is glad she realized something was going on and didn’t come to the door.
“I’m so glad God was with us and we didn’t answer the door, and you see he had on gloves and a mask,” she told Fernandes.
DoorDash confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that the suspect was in no way associated with their platform, and there was no active delivery to the apartment complex at the time of the incident.
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