NEW IBERIA, La. – A New Iberia man is reminding residents to double-check their locks after he woke up to a complete stranger standing in the doorway of his bedroom early Thursday morning (July 24).
Robert Pineda says the scary encounter happened around 2 a.m. at his home, and he shared the details in a Facebook post that quickly gained local attention.
“I was woken up when a man I have never met before was standing in the doorway to my bedroom saying he was being chased,” Pineda wrote. The man claimed he jumped Pineda’s fence to escape people trying to harm him and then entered Pineda’s house through an unlocked door…