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the morning of November 23rd started out like any other for Amanda Zupancic, a special education teacher at Kirtland Local Schools. She was teaching a student on Zoom in the upstairs office of her West Cleveland home when she suddenly was interrupted. I heard a just a glass shattering crash downstairs. When she went to check, she never expected that sound to come from what she saw. A shattered window and a bloodied man in her home. There was a man walking through my baby gate with a knife in his hand, walking upstairs when he started threatening me, Um, yelling at me, calling me names. He brought me upstairs into my bedroom. He began rummaging through her things This all while Zupancic student and his family were still on that zoom call listening from a county away on an onside the location of your emergency. The teacher that teaches my son. Somebody broke into her house like we saw him home with Zoom. As the man searched for valuables, the family explained what was happening to a 911 dispatcher. I guess she heard the man take it on me. Get on the floor. I'm gonna cut your throat. Zupancic told the man he could have her car keys and he let her go downstairs. But when I reached for my keys instead, I opened the gate and I have a German shepherd in the Great Dane boxer mix. So the German shepherd came and stood between myself and this guy and the Great Dane boxer. Mixed went Adam, her two dogs, Lady and Wellington scared the intruder into a corner and gave her time to think. Just grabbed a pair of scissors. Um chased him to the front door, and she continued to chase him down the street, where a contractor working outside tackled him and detained him until police got there. They arrested and charged Charles Darius it Ah, convicted felon who served time behind bars for aggravated robbery. Zupancic is still shaken up but says between her dogs, her students, parents and even some strangers, there's more heroes in this story than there are villains. I'm lucky that there's enough loving people in the world toe to figure this all out. Reporting in Cleveland, Jesse Shultz News five