After a terrifying experience where someone came to his home and banged on his doors and windows, Haider Nabeel purchased a Ring camera. But after a week and a half following the purchase of the camera, he frequently captured a strange individual on camera at his Dearborn Heights residence.
A masked man was constantly seen standing at Nabeel and his Michigan family’s door on their Ring video, which has left them anxious.
“A guy with a black ski mask started banging on the door, and we got that on footage, and he ran. And then this time it was that orange mask,” Nabeel told WWJ.
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Since there is no reason why anyone would have an issue with his mother or younger siblings, Nabeel indicated that he is not concerned that this is a targeted attack. But the family is still scared.
Dearborn Heights police said the worrying behavior is occurring at other residences in the neighborhood.
“They did tell us that there was other occurrences in the neighborhood, at least that’s what they told us that it’s been happening to other people,” Nabeel said. “So I don’t think it’s a targeted thing, I just think it’s some teenagers messing around thinking they’re funny.”
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And although Nabeel’s immediate neighbors haven’t encountered this weird and spooky man, they all agree that it’s disturbing.
“Really don’t know how I would react really don’t,” Joe Kosho said.
“I would like run away, I would like go hide downstairs,” Kosho’s daughter added.
Police in Dearborn Heights have encouraged anyone with knowledge on the identity of the masked man to contact them as they are making an effort to locate him.
Meanwhile, such pranks have a track record of ending badly for sometimes both the prankster and the victim.
Some weeks ago, police revealed that a high school athlete was allegedly shot dead by a Virginia homeowner after the teenager and two other friends banged on the shooter’s door while playing “ding dong ditch.”
27-year-old Tyler Chase Butler was charged with the murder of the 18-year-old high school senior and athlete Michael Bosworth Jr, as well as injuring one of his friends.
Authorities initially reported it as an attempted burglary on a residential block in Fredericksburg around 3 a.m., the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said, before investigations began.
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