Three Saratoga Springs women are recovering after a violent home invasion that took place on Thursday.
83-year-old Patsy Stroud and her two daughters, Eva Bell and Julie Ward, were inside their home when they heard about a dozen knocks at their front door."She just kind of pushed me and barged in here," said Ward.
They say a 24-year-old woman, identified in a probable cause statement as Katelyn Oxendine, made her way into the home. "My daughter got up to get her to leave and I stepped up to help her and she punched me square in the face, knocked me off my feet," said Stroud."I grabbed her by the neck in a chokehold, thinking if I could just hold on to her, but she was wet and she was really strong and then she just started punching me," said Bell."She grabbed onto my arm, with her teeth, like a dog, her head was going back and forth, and she was trying to pull chunks out of my arm," said Bell.
Stroud's son, who she says was down in the basement at the time, came upstairs and was able to get Oxendine out of the home. She was arrested down the street by Saratoga Springs police shortly after the incident took place. According to the probable cause statement, she faces a variety of assault and burglary charges.
The probable cause statement says Oxendine was admitted to a hospital at the beginning of August for a psych detail, but no other information was given.Both Stroud and Bell were treated at American Fork Hospital for their injuries."That people will be more careful with who is on their porch, not opening the door until they know that's someone they want in their home," said Stroud.
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