This is the horrific moment when a lady holding a pickaxe blasted through the windows of a Pasadena home mere inches away from a newborn.
Beverley Baker, 65, was captured on camera holding the weapon during the terrible incident and returning to the California residence multiple times.
The infant’s grandmother witnessed the attacker demolish the building with a pickaxe and shower her six-week-old granddaughter with shattered glass.
Arman Tchoukadarian stated that he believes his family has lost their safe haven as a result of the tragedy.
The homeowner estimates that the incident caused approximately $20,000 in damages to the residence.
Baker brazenly approached the residence with a huge weapon when his mother-in-law was alone with the infant.
The infant’s grandmother witnessed the assailant destroy the building with a pickaxe and shower her six-week-old granddaughter with shattered glass.
She snatched the infant from the window just before it shattered, but Baker continued her onslaught and returned more times.
Baker may have suffered from mental illness, yet investigators cannot prove this.
Later, Pasadena Police detained her at her residence just a few blocks from where the attack had occurred.
She snatched the infant from the window just before it shattered, but Baker continued her onslaught and again returned.
My kid wouldn’t be here if my mother-in-law hadn’t acted as quickly as she did, Tchoukadarian told KTLA.
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She shattered one window, then returned. To catch my attention, my mother-in-law came out screaming and yelling.
The police spotted her casually strolling with a pickaxe on her back, as if she had just finished using it.
Baker repeatedly reappeared with the pickaxe slung over her shoulder and said, ‘Questions? Questions anyone? I’ll be back; leave.
The homeowner estimates that the attack caused approximately $20,000 in property damage.
Baker repeatedly reappeared with the pickaxe slung over her shoulder and said, ‘Questions? Questions anyone? I’ll be back, vamoose!
Tchoukadarian stated that his family was disturbed by the event, claiming that they had lost their’safe space’
The Pasadena Police Department then detained her at her residence, just a few blocks from the scene of the attack.
According to investigators, Baker may have suffered from mental illness, though this cannot be proved.
Baker resisted arrest for around thirty minutes, but was eventually taken into jail and charged with felony vandalism.
The event has traumatized Tchoukadarian’s family, he added, adding, ‘She needs to be in the appropriate place, receiving the correct help.
That is no justification for attacking someone’s family, their newborn, their ideal home, and their life and sanity.