Man with ax breaks into home, homeowner locks herself in bathroom

MESA, Ariz. -- (KNXV) -- She was sound asleep, when her door bell rang twice. What happened next though, was the most terrifying two minutes of one Mesa woman's life.

Erika Grijalva can't sleep, and she can't eat anymore.

"It's something you see in the movie," she said. "It's something you think happens to someone else."

A young man stormed into her home near 8th Avenue and Dobson Road on Sunday evening; he was armed with an ax.

"I hear a guy's voice, 'Is anybody here is anybody here?'"

She quickly locked herself in her bathroom and called 911, but he started slashing through the door.

"I see it coming through and I see it coming through and I start yelling, screaming," she said. "At this point I don't know if he is here to kill me, I don't know."

He said he wanted cash and guns but Grijalva had neither. She handed over her laptop and tablet, and satisfied with that, he left by jumping her back fence.

Grijalva won't sleep until he's off the streets.

"I don't want this to happen to somebody else," she said. "People can be aware, people can be safer."