A California woman’s terrifying escape from a homeless intruder was caught on camera — revealing a hair-raising image of the woman cowering on her roof with the menace lurking right behind her.
Heart-stopping photos depict a scene straight out of a horror flick Wednesday morning a▨s Melora Rivera👍 can be seen covering her mouth and face while she does her best to hide from the burglar.
Rivera was in bed when she heard 29-year-old Christian Hicks breaking into her home. That’s when she bailed out her second-story window and crouched down under an overhang,
Hicks — whom neighbors identified on social media as a transient — had allegedly busted one of the window panels in Rivera’s front door before making his way into the home.
“Once I saw him in the house, I knew that we both couldn’t be there,” Rivera told KCAL Channel 9. “I knew that I didn’t want to have a confrontation with him of any sort, you know, not knowing what his intention was.”
Dressed in only🌸 a flannel shirt, Rivera rushed to the roof as Hicks followe༺d closely behind. She grabbed her phone, jumped out of the window and crouched under the eave so she could call police, according to CBS Los Angeles.
“It was my biggest fear ꦑwas that he was going to be forced by the cops to come hide in basica💞lly the same place I was hiding,” Rivera said.
Cops quickly arrived and surrounded the house — but when they spott𝓡ed Rivera hiding on the roof, they were completely unaware that Hicks was prowling just feet behind her,
“The d𓃲rop is, I would guess, more than 20 feet,” she said. “So there was no safely jumping off the roof or coming dow♌n from the roof at that point.”
When cops arrived, they didn’t immediately notice Hicks on the roof, Los Ang🍬eles Police Department Public Iꦚnformation Officer Liliana Preciado told The Post.
But once they spotted him, they drew their guns to show Rivera she was ♔pr🙈otected, Preciado said.
Hicks was talked down from the roof and arrested just before 9:30 a.m. He was charged with burglary and is being held on $50,000 bail🌃.
A shaken Rivera was rescued by firefighters.
The transient had tᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚerrorized the neighborhood ea🍸rlier Wednesday, when he was caught lurking in a yard at around 7:30 a.m.
Cops wer🥂e called, but Hicks was eventually released because the caller refused to identify him.
Preciado declined to comment on that incident.