Texting 911 to St. Augustine sheriff's saves woman from machete-wielding intruder

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St. Augustine, FL - A St. Augustine woman feared what a machete-wielding man would do if he heard her calling for help, so grabbed her phone and let her thumbs do the talking.

“(He) broke into my house and is threatening to kill me,” she typed. “I’m scared he’ll do it before help can get here.”

The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office shared the text messages she sent to 911 early Monday morning after the suspect Justin Troy Locke allegedly broke in, threatened her, and tried to set the home on fire.

“Please don’t have them come with their lights on cuz I’m scared he’ll hurt me,” the texts continued.

After the deputies arrived, another text message – this one from the Sheriff’s Office to her – let her know they were about to force their way into the home to rescue her.

Once inside, the deputies needed to deploy their 40mm “less lethal” launcher to get Locke into custody. He has since been booked on counts of attempted arson, assault, burglary, and resisting a law enforcement officer with violence.