Crime & Safety

Flower Delivery Guy Tases Buckhead Mother In Her Home: Police

Single mother tells police a man claiming to deliver flowers attacked her with a taser in her Buckhead home.

Single mother tells police a man claiming to deliver flowers attacked her with a taser in her Buckhead home.
Single mother tells police a man claiming to deliver flowers attacked her with a taser in her Buckhead home. (Marcus K. Garner | Patch)

ATLANTA — A Buckhead woman was attacked inside her home by a man posing as a flower deliveryman.

The woman shared surveillance video of the man coming to her door and told media she belives she is being stalked.

An Atlanta Police report released Thursday said the incident took place in August when Sabrina Wynn flagged down an officer outside her subdivision near Canterbury Lane.

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Wynn had her two young sons with her and told the officer that a man had shot her with a taser after entering her home to deliver a floral arrangement, the report said.

Around 10:30 a.m., on Aug. 11, a 5-foot-six-inch, middle-aged white man in khaki pants and a white shirt came to the door with the bouquet of flowers and asked if she was Sabrina, Wynn told the officer.

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He had covered his face with the flowers and asked if he could come inside to put the arrangement down, she told WAGA TV Fox 5 Atlanta. As they walked into the home, she said she turned around to see the man aiming a taser gun at her.

He fired and two of the taser prongs struck her in her midsection, the report says, and she was able to fight through the electrical current and pull one of the projectiles from her skin. She ran upstairs to her children, then came back downstairs with them and fled the home, police said.

Officers offered to take Wynn to the hospital for treatment of her injuries from the taser, but she refused.

Police said she was unable to make security video footage available to officers responding to the incident. However, Wynn recently released the footage to area TV news outlets and on her personal social media.

Sharing her security video with Fox 5 Atlanta, Wynn told the news station that she was afraid some was stalking her but had no idea why she was targeted.

"It is very disturbing because I don't have any bills in my name," she said to Fox 5 TV. "My house isn't in my name. How did he even know my name?"
She has since moved from the Buckhead home.

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