The North Carolina teacher who was allegedly attacked by a homeless man in her own home managed to describe the sickening assault before dying.
“He hit me with a brick,” Zoe Welsh’s haunting final words were to a 911 dispatcher after career criminal Ryan Camacho, 36, allegedly forced his way into her home and attacked her, according to investigators.
“A man just broke in through the window. He is a homeless man. I have seen him in the park at Fred Fletcher,” she said, following the terrifying home invasion in Raleigh around 6:30 a.m. on Jan. 3, US Weekly reported.
“He is in the house right now. He hit me with a brick. He hit me with a brick. I am on the floor in my bedroom.”
The dispatcher asked Welsh repeatedly if she was still on the line — but there was no answer.
Camacho, a career criminal with six arrests in the past four years, has been charged with murder and felony burglary in the killing of Welsh, a beloved educator at Ravenscroft School in Raleigh.
He is yet to enter a plea to the charges and is next due in court Jan. 26.
At the time of Welsh’s murder, he was out on a sweetheart plea deal.
In 2016, he threw a rock and broke a neighbor’s car window and tried to enter his vehicle, later pleading guilty to property damage.
The man accused Camacho of stalking his family for months, but this charge was dismissed by a judge, and he spent just two and a half months in jail with post-release mental health treatment.
In 2017 alone, he was arrested four times and charged with seven non-violent misdemeanors, WRAL reported.
In 2019, Camacho allegedly fired four bullets into a woman’s home in Raleigh, and was hit with eight felony charges, six of which were dropped as part of a plea deal.
He was sentenced to a minimum of two years in prison with nine months of post-release supervision and a following five years of probation.
Camacho was sent back to prison after allegedly violating his supervision and served a total of five and a half years for the case.
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