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"I told her just to flick the lights on and off a couple of times" to scare off intruders, Stanley said. "Then I crawled back into bed."
Melissa, by then awake, followed her cousin downstairs, and both heard noises. The teen opened the garage door and saw someone running away.
"That's when my daughter took off after him, ran about 300 feet and tackled him on the grass," Stanley said.
She described her daughter as 5-foot-3 and 110 pounds, "a little bitty thing." Police described Burkett as 5-foot-10 and 140 pounds.
"I felt violated," Melissa said. "The only thing running through my mind was, ?How dare you?? ?
Her mother said that Melissa yelled and asked her to bring a dog leash. She grabbed a lunging rope, used to exercise horses.
"(Melissa) tied his right hand and wrapped it around his neck and held him down until the cops got there," Stanley said. "She had it all under control."
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