Watch above: A family living in Saskatoon’s Pleasant Hill neighbourhood is shaken after a break-in Saturday. Amber Rockliffe reports.
SASKATOON – A family living in Saskatoon’s Pleasant Hill neighbourhood is shaken after a break-in Saturday. Tanya Lavallee was at a Christmas party and left her teenaged daughters to take care of her two younger children.
Shortly after midnight, a man was banging at their back door after getting into an altercation with a woman outside.
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“He started kicking in the door, so the cop subdued him,” explained Tanya Lavallee.
“He somehow got away and got through the house, but the girls grabbed the babies, running to the back.”
The girls said they were terrified he would hurt their younger siblings.
“We just picked up and ran to the back room – we were all scared so I just kind of held the door,” explained Renee Lavallee, Tanya Lavallee’s daughter.
A police officer followed the man into the house and during their struggle, used a Taser on him. The suspect was then taken into custody.
“I’m still trying to get over what just happened last night, and you know it’s hard to believe he was actually in our house when he shouldn’t even have got that far in the first place,” Renee Lavallee explained.
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A trail of blood still runs along the pathway and into the home.
“We’ll have to fix a lot of it, and I’m going to do a lot of talking to the kids – my three-year-old, she was pretty shaken up,” said Tanya Lavallee.
The family said nobody was harmed but they now live in fear, worrying it will happen again.
“I used to brush it off and think, oh it’s just the neighbourhood – I don’t think anything will ever happen to us, but now that this happened, I totally think differently about it,” Renee Lavallee explained.
The suspect was sent to hospital for a medical assessment before being taken to the police detention facility. He faces a number of charges including break and enter, assaulting a police officer and breaching his probation.
The Lavallee family hopes they will be able to move forward and recover after the terrifying night.
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