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Home invasion rattles Wendover family
Fleming, was alone in the house with her 16-month-old baby girl. Katelyn and her daughter live downstairs in the basement suite which is connected inside to the up- stairs. Around themiddle of the afternoon, Kate- lyn heard a knock on the front door upstairs. She went to answer and found a youngman on the doorstep. There was a bike lying on its side just outside the house. The young man asked if someone named Tori was in. Katelyn told him they’d just moved in and didn’t know anyone named Tori. “He was very polite,”Cynthia Fleming said, recalling her daughter’s recollection of the incident. “He said, ‘Thank you’, and left.” Half an hour later the stranger came back. Katelyn answered at the door again and opened it to see the same young man. This time not so polite.
“He grabs her arm and puts a knife to her stomach,” Cynthia Fleming said. “He pushed her up the five steps of our raised bungalow, and he’s yelling, ‘Where’s Tori?’ and cursing.” At that moment the baby downstairs started crying. The intruder dropped his knife, perhaps in surprise, Katelyn took quick advantage of the distraction and pushed him down the steps. He stumbled downstairs to the door, shaking his head, seeming confused and disoriented. Katelyn followed and shoved him outside the still- open door, slammed it shut and locked it. Then she called 911. The police arrived soon after. The youth had fled. The police took down Katelyn’s de- scription of him and then searched around the neighbourhood. The bike was later found abandoned in a ditch. The home invasion case remains open
and police have checked in with the Flem- ings to keep them updated. For now, the family is dealing with the stress and the fear left behind by the stranger on their door- step. “In the last few days, Katelyn will now go outside,” Cynthia Fleming said. “But other- wise, she stays inside with the doors locked.” The OPP are looking for information on a youth, age between 14 and 16. He is de- scribed as about five-foot-nine, 180 pounds, with light brown shoulder-length hair, and a large amount of facial acne. At the time of the incident he was dressed in shorts and a patterned T-shirt. The bike he had with him at the time and later abandoned was red- and-white in colour. Anyone with information can call the CrimeStoppers toll-free confidential tips number at 1-800-222-8477.
GREGGCHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
WENDOVER | They make sure all doors and windows are locked now at the Flem- ing house. A home invasion incident has robbed a mother and daughter of the safe and secure feeling they once had when they arrived in the village in Alfred-Plan- tagenet Township. “We moved to a small community think- ing it would be really safe,” said Cynthia Fleming. “It’s overwhelming. Now I lock my doors all the time, which I never used to.” The situation for the Fleming household on Rue de Centre in Wendover changed mid-June when Cynthia Fleming was away at work and her daughter, Katelyn
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