The 80-year-old says her kidnapper broke in through a window and climbed into bed with her, armed with scissors and covered in blood (via toofab)
Holt's family meanwhile, all the way across the country in Seattle, became worried when they realized their mom wasn't reading her texts... and hadn't sent a Wordle.
"I didn't send my older daughter a Wordle in the morning," Holt recalled."And that was disconcerting to her." The family called Lincolnwood Police to perform a welfare check on Sunday night, which unfolded into an hours-long standoff. The SWAT team eventually managed to subdue the intruder by shooting him with a stun gun through a hole that had been cut in an interior door.
They arrested 32-year-old James H. Davis III at the scene. He faces felony charges including home invasion with a dangerous weapon, aggravated kidnapping while armed with a dangerous weapon, and aggravated assault against a peace officer. Police believe he was suffering a mental health crisis."I never thought in a million years this is what was happening," her Wordle-playing daughter Meredith Holt-Caldwell said,"but it was.
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