Jim KnollCLARKSVILLE, Tenn. -
Clarksville police are seeking the public's assistance identifying and locating the man who broke into an 84-year-old woman's house, assaulted and robbed her.
The woman was approached by the man as she returned home from the grocery store around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Police said the man broke into the woman's Greenwood Avenue home, approached her from behind and threw her to the ground, breaking her glasses.
"The next thing she knows she is being grabbed from behind and thrown to the floor and then she is being told, don't look back at me, I'll kill you," explained Clarksville police spokesperson Sgt. Jim Knoll.
The man said something to the woman about drugs and told her he wanted cash.
He later forced her into a bathroom and pushed a couch in front of the door before fleeing with an unknown amount of cash and the woman's checkbook.
The woman was somehow able to get out of the bathroom and call police.
"He didn't want her to get out, he couldn't get the door closed totally so he pinned her in. She was able to get herself out and call 911," Knoll said.
Sgt. Knoll said a witness reported seeing a man running from the residence toward Tyler Street but officers were unable to locate him.
The suspect is described as a stocky white male, approximately five feet, eight inches tall.
He was wearing blue jeans, a tan Carhart-style jacket, black head covering and some sort of covering over his face.
"We are looking hard and we want somebody to give us information. We have got to find this guy. He needs to be taken off the streets," Knoll said.
Anyone with information is urged to call the Clarksville Police Department's tips line at 931-645-8477.
