Updated: Woman Wakes to Find Prowler at Foot of Her Bed

Updated 1:27 p.m.

A Venice woman woke up early Monday morning to find a prowler standing at the foot of her bed but managed to flee her residence to call authorities, police said.

The “hot prowl” occurred at 3:10 a.m. inside a studio apartment at 28th Avenue and Speedway, said Lt. Joseph Sanchez of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Pacific Station.

A woman awakened to find the man standing at the foot of her bed holding what she feared was a knife, Sanchez said.

“They had a short conversation and he went into the kitchen, which allowed her to run outside and to a neighbor’s apartment to call police,” he said.

The suspect was gone when police arrived, Sanchez said. But a search turned up a possible suspect; he was interviewed and released, police said.

-City News Service