A Los Angeles homeowner who is housing an uninvited homeless man on her porch is concerned for her safety after the police have ‘done nothing’ to remove him.
Shacola Thompson, a resident of Van Nuys, said the homeless man has nestled up on her patio furniture about ten times this month.
Thompson first noticed unusual activity outside her home when she found graffiti on her porch near Hazeltine Avenue and Sherman Way. She was able to take a peek at her front door camera and saw the unidentified man lounging on her outdoor couch.
‘He came to my house yesterday morning and tried to break in,’ Thompson told ABC 7. ‘I’m concerned about my safety.’
‘He could come in,’ she later added. ‘He could harm me. He could bogart his way into my house. It’s not fair.’
Footage from Thompson’s front door captured several moments police arrived to confront the man.
‘He told police yesterday that he lives here, and he does not live here,’ Thompson explained.
Despite multiple attempts for police intervention, the homeless man keeps showing up.
‘I just feel like they’re not taking this serious,’ Thompson said. ‘They’re not taking my safety seriously. I live here. I’m alone.’
DailyMail.com reached out to Los Angeles Police Department for a comment but they weren’t immediately available.
An uninvited homeless man is continuously showing up to a woman’s Van Nuys home to sleep despite her pleas to police to intervene
Shacola Thompson, a resident of Van Nuys, said the homeless man has nestled up on her patio furniture about ten times this month
Thomas first spotted the man on her porch when she was leaving for work at 8am earlier this month
The man has become a regular dweller at Thompson’s home and has refused to leave
He leaves behind his trash as he comes and goes
The homeless man also wrote on Thompson’s door. She noticed it after returning from a trip
Thompson first noticed the man standing on her porch when she was leaving for work one day around 8am.
She pleaded with the police to help her and refused she knew the man that keeps showing up at her front door.
‘Do you know this individual,’ an officer previously asked Thompson through the camera.
‘I do not know him. I do not know this individual. He’s been poking around here. This is the second time I have to call log him. He tagged my wall.’
In one of the videos, the man is seen being approached by police and then placed into handcuffs.
‘Stand up, let’s go,’ an officer can be heard telling the man as he sits on the patio furniture with trash beside him.
It is unclear if the man has returned since.
In one of the videos, the man is seen being approached by police. Startled he proceeded to get up at an officer’s demand
The man is then seen with his hands behind his back as an officer places him in handcuffs
Thompson’s fear of the homeless man stems from what he is potentially capable of doing.
Earlier this year, surveillance footage captured the moment a homeless man in Los Angeles forced a young woman into a residential garage where he ‘nearly raped her’ before she was able to escape.
Just 20 minutes later, the suspect tried to force his way into another woman’s apartment but fled when she screamed, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
In the first incident, surveillance footage, first obtained by ABC 7, captured the man gripping the woman by her arm as they walked through the West Hollywood neighborhood, where homes sell for an average of $1.5million each.
He then pulled her inside the garage of a stranger’s home at the 800 block of North Vista Street near Melrose Avenue around 12.30 pm.
Moments later, the woman is seen racing out of the garage to her freedom. She then ran to get help.
The unidentified man can then be seen walking back out of the garage.
In surveillance footage of the incident, the man can be seen gripping the first woman by her arm and pulling her inside the garage at the 800 block of North Vista Street near Melrose Avenue around 12.30 pm
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