From Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna:

Pia Marshall awoke to the familiar sound of her son’s voice calling out from his nearby bedroom.

Trudging down the hallway on a pre-dawn morning last March, Pia fetched her 6-year-old and guided him toward the bathroom. Passing a window, the Redmond mom of three caught the unmistakable sight of a man creeping up her driveway.

“Call the police!” Pia hollered repeatedly, instinctively pulling her son toward her.

But as Scott Marshall awoke and grabbed a telephone, the ski cap and sweatshirt-wearing stranger approached instead of retreating. To her horror, Pia saw the intruder’s silhouette through the front door’s frosted windows. He jostled the handle, attempting to enter the house.

Within moments the Redmond police had arrived, along with a neighbor whose alarm and barking dog had been set off by the same intruder.

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