She's practiced karate for the past year. She never thought she'd actually have to use it.
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As she walked up to her front door she noticed something odd. There was a t-shirt draped over the porch light. And the screen was off the window of the master bedroom.
“As soon as I opened the door I rushed right in,” Ramirez said.
She heard water running in the bathroom. The door was closed.
“I started pounding on the bathroom door and he was all 'I live here, I live here.’ And was like 'No you don't,’” Ramirez said.
She kicked in the bathroom door, shattering the door jam.
“He came at me. I kicked him. I kicked him through the sliding doors to the back of my shower. He came at me again and I threw him into the living room. And from there I literally kicked him all the way out of my house,” Ramirez said.
The man left blood on the walls and the fence around her apartment.
He stayed put until sheriff's deputies arrived.
They discovered he moved into the complex three weeks earlier.
Sunday morning, he was drunk.
And apparently thought he had gone into his own apartment.
“If this had been an armed citizen coming home, this guy could easily have been shot and killed just because he was under the influence,” said Deputy Chris Curtice with the Fresno Sheriff’s Department.
At the karate studio where Jannine trains, her teachers couldn't be happier.
“I'm very proud of her it looks like what we've been teaching her has actually worked so that's good,” said head instructor Mike Guido of Art of Shotokan Karate.
And Jannine would do it again.
“If I’m ever threatened by anyone I know what I have to do,” Ramirez said.