SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — A north Fulton County woman says she panicked and grabbed a knife when she caught a man peeping through her bedroom window.
The woman turned 23 on Sunday, but instead of the day celebrating with family and friends, she spent the day with her parents installing security cameras inside and outside her apartment.
“It’s just creepy. It’s not respectful," she said, asking not to be identified. "It’s a total invasion of privacy.”
The woman told Channel 2's Michael Seiden that she spotted the man just after 12 a.m. Sunday outside the first-floor unit she rents at the Edgewater Apartments off Roswell Road.
“The blinds were closed but the curtains were opened. I was in bed around 12 a.m. and my cat started staring at the window. She doesn’t usually do that," the woman said. “I pulled back the blinds right there and that’s when I saw him. He took up the entire window space. I couldn’t even see outside the window.”
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The woman told Seiden that she began to panic after she realized the man was fully exposed.
That’s when she ran to the kitchen, grabbed a knife and ran outside.
“(I had) my phone in one hand and I started screaming,” she said.
She told Seiden that she started chasing after the suspect.
“He ran off and then he went and got in his car, and I followed him and called police and described his vehicle to police," the woman said.
Police swarmed the area and eventually caught up with the man about a mile from the apartment complex.
Investigators identified the suspect as Gibson Altidor, 32, and charged him with a felony charge of peeping Tom.
“I literally slept in bed with the knife. It was really scary. Nothing like that had ever happened to me before,” the woman said.
She told Seiden that she's now considering moving, but in the meantime, she will stay with her parents.
Altidor is expected to face a judge Monday morning.
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