An attempted home invasion in Richmond Hill just before noon Wednesday failed before it had a chance to get going when a resident of the city’s Piercefield Forest subdivision noticed some males she thought were suspicious and called 911.
While the woman was on the phone speaking with dispatch the males backed their car into her driveway and kicked her door in.
“When they realized somebody was home they took off. We were already on the way over there when they kicked the door and saw her and left,” Police Chief Billy Reynolds said.
The would-be robbers fled toward Chatham County but due what Reynolds described as their erratic and dangerous driving the RHPD did not continue the pursuit.
“We tried to catch them, pursued them for a short distance but called off the chase, it was just too dangerous,” he said.
Reynolds said that the vehicle and its owner have been identified and that the RHPD and Savannah-Chatham Police are investigating the incident.