Fourteen-year-old Avery Cormier did not let fear stop her when a stranger broke into her home in Middleborough, Massachusetts, on Friday morning.
MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass. - A Massachusetts teenager is earning rave reviews after she confronted a home intruder and helped police catch him.Cormier did not let fear stop her when a stranger broke into her home in Middleborough, Massachusetts, on Friday morning.
“I heard the boots walk through the house and I thought that my mom might have just forgotten her phone and came back until I realized that’s not my mom,” she said.“I was screaming at the top of my lungs to get out of my house, get out. That’s really it,” Cormier said.“It was just kind of adrenaline,” she said.
The suspect then fled and Cormier called 911. She also managed to record a video of him driving away.“She had the wherewithal in the moment of extreme stress and scary event to be able to think on her feet,” Middleborough Police Chief Joseph Perkins said.“She’s a straight-A student. She’s like, she’s just, she’s ... I don’t know, I’m blessed to have a daughter like her,” Cormier’s mother, who did not provide her name, said.“Call the police before you do anything,” she said.
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