{"id":299419,"date":"2026-05-04T17:41:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299419\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:41:41","slug":"terrifying-doorbell-cam-captures-knife-wielding-maniac-stalking-sacramento-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299419\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrifying doorbell cam captures knife-wielding maniac stalking Sacramento neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

A knife-wielding maniac was caught on terrifying doorbell camera footage<\/a> repeatedly making stabbing motions outside stunned Sacramento-area homeowners\u2019 front doors \u2014 sending an Arden neighborhood into panic<\/a> as the suspect remains on the loose.<\/p>\n

Rebecca Breen and her husband were watching TV around 8:30 p.m. Thursday when their Ring camera suddenly began sending alerts that someone was at their front door, KCRA<\/a> reported. <\/p>\n

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A knife-wielding maniac was caught on terrifying doorbell camera footage repeatedly making stabbing motions outside stunned Sacramento-area homeowners\u2019 front doors. Ring<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started getting alerts on our phone that there was action on our motion on our Ring camera at the front door,\u201d Breen told the outlet.<\/p>\n

Moments later, the couple heard pounding.<\/p>\n

\"Rebecca<\/p>\n

Rebecca Breen and her husband were watching TV around 8:30 p.m. Thursday when their Ring camera suddenly began sending alerts that someone was at their front door. Ring<\/p>\n

\u201cWe heard a loud knock and we looked in the ring camera and we noticed that there was something very strange going on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The chilling footage showed a man brandishing a knife while appearing to repeatedly stab toward the home\u2019s entrance.<\/p>\n

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The chilling footage showed a man brandishing a knife while appearing to repeatedly stab toward the home\u2019s entrance. Ring<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was terrifying. It was absolutely terrifying,\u201d Breen added.<\/p>\n

She immediately dialed 911.<\/p>\n

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The sheriff\u2019s office also deployed a helicopter in the search, but the suspect vanished before authorities could catch him. Ring<\/p>\n

Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Lt. Amar Gandhi said multiple frantic residents reported the armed prowler as deputies rushed to the scene within minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were several residents calling, stuff is actually caught on Ring camera. So our deputies got there, got in the area actually, just within minutes. But by then he\u2019d fled,\u201d Gandhi said.<\/p>\n

The sheriff\u2019s office also deployed a helicopter in the search, but the suspect vanished before authorities could catch him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty scary stuff. He\u2019s going out there literally thrashing on doors with knives. But fortunately, again, nobody hurt. People were very smart in the sense of lock the doors, stayed inside and called us,\u201d explained Gandhi.<\/p>\n

Breen doesn\u2019t believe her family was specifically targeted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do believe that we were a random target. I don\u2019t think that we were specifically targeted, but I think it\u2019s very scary because if it wasn\u2019t us, it\u2019s going to be someone else,\u201d she said. \u201cI mean, clearly he was not in his right frame of mind at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neighbors reported that private security never showed up, and several residents expressed frustration at how long it took law enforcement to reach out to homeowners after the frightening ordeal.<\/p>\n

Deputies are still searching for the suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A knife-wielding maniac was caught on terrifying doorbell camera footage repeatedly making stabbing motions outside stunned Sacramento-area homeowners\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[81233,84679,126857,126090,126089,121,2639,123,122],"class_list":["post-299419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-doorbell-camera","tag-front-door","tag-front-doors","tag-rebecca-breen","tag-ring-camera","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county-sheriff","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}