Suspect's death leaves woman homeless

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The woman who lives in the house where the deadly standoff ended talked to said the ordeal has left her traumatized and homeless.

Family members were moving things out of the house on Daytona Drive Monday.  The woman, who had rented the home for just a few months, said she's thankful she wasn't there Friday when a murder suspect crawled under the house.

"I was not here at all.  I would have.." the woman said.

Her mother continued.

"She would have been if I had not called her and told her when she got the baby out of school to come by my house, I had cooked. That day, I guess God was in the plan," the mother said.

The woman, her mother, and her sister agreed to talk to us off camera.  

When she found out a murder suspect was on the loose, she tried to get home, but the area was blocked off.

It was hours later before she discovered the shoot-out was at her house. 

"‘Because I live on Daytona, could you tell me what house y'all were at?’” the woman asked the officer. “He said, ‘What color is your home?’ I said, ‘Green and white.’  He said, ‘Ma'am, that's the house we're at.’ He said, ‘We been looking for you forever,’ and I'm not even knowing.  I'm on the back street, trying to get home.”

By the time she made it closer to her home, there were police everywhere, and a dead man on the ground.

"He was like where the bricks were broke," the woman’s sister said.

There are broken pipes under the house, bullet holes in at least two rooms, and the smell of tear gas in the house; but those aren't the only reasons she said she can't stay there.

"This is where we lay our head here.  This is where we live and to have to see that, there's no way possible that we could stay here.  There's no way," she said.

She said she understands police had to do their job, but now she believes she and her son are left to struggle.

"They're telling me to sit back wait.  I can't get help from no one," she said.

Mobile Police Attorney Wanda Rahman told Fox Ten News Monday the city is looking into the woman's situation.  Rahman saidthe woman will get some real help from the city. 

FOX10 will follow the story and let you know what happens.