Buckhead couple shares account of home invasion

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — David and Mary Hubert have lived in their house in Garden Hills for more than 20 years, and never had any issues with crime until Monday night.

They were watching movies on different floors of their house around 7 p.m., when a man – identified by police as 36-year-old Ramon Darden – barged into the bottom floor and threatened David.

“You walk to somebody that’s in your house and you say, ‘Can I help you?’ And they say, ‘Get out! This is my house! Get out of my house!’” said David.

“Profanities,” added Mary.

“Cursing and belligerent,“ said David.

David was able to quickly lock himself into a room and call 911. Meanwhile, Mary heard the commotion from upstairs, so she quickly grabbed her gun from under her pillow and hid.

“And I got my Sweet Jane,” said Mary.

“That’s the name of her .38,” added David.

“And I waited. He didn’t know where I was, and I could see from the mirrors in the bathroom, from my view, I could see if anybody came in,” said Mary.

David stayed on the phone with Atlanta police until they arrived, not knowing where Mary was. During all this, David says Darden was going room to room through their house.

“Apparently he was upstairs smoking and wandering around the house, and he’d taken all the family pictures and turned them over face down,” said David.

When police arrived, David was able to get out, but he still couldn’t reach Mary for more than an hour.

“I don’t know what her status is, I don’t know where she is, but I know she’s capable of defending herself, and that if anybody ever broke in they’d better hope they get me and not Mary,” said David.

Police arrested Darden and cleared the scene.

Strangely enough, the Huberts’ 2-year-old beagle, Bobby, slept through the entire three-hour ordeal.

“We’re giving an F for the dog. Mary gets an A, and I’ll take a C,” said David.

And now the Huberts said they’re grateful to Atlanta police, but mostly to God, that they both made it out alive.

“I was praying so hard and they were answered. He listened,” said Mary.

The Huberts tell me the suspect likely got in through an unlocked door on the side of the garage, and it’s now locked moving forward.

Darden was charged with burglary and criminal trespass.