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[Music] I want to 434 yeah somebody just attacked my roommate please get a cop your Michael Herman is telling his story
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publicly for the first time about the events on the night of Valentine's Day 2020 and into the early hours of the
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next day the word nightmare isn't even a big enough word is it no no his roommate
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successful family therapist Amy Harwick had gone out with friends and Michael was in his downstairs bedroom he later
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woke up to Amy returning home I just was woken up by screaming like blood curdling
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scream and and then I realized that the screaming wasn't stopping or slowing down and I yelled up you know Amy and I
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heard choking right after that I knew we were in trouble this is for real this is
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really happening I'm trying to listen you don't know for sure what's going on was he acting alone was there more than
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one person I start rushing to look for my phone but Michael says he couldn't find
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his phone I knew we needed help like I'm going to have to make a break for it Michael fled the house to get help
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but when he got to the front gate it was locked he climbed over a fence cutting himself un spiked rods frantically he
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ran to the next door neighbor's house that neighbor surveillance camera shows Michael knocking on the door but no one
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answers I just kind of panick you know feeling like a a lot of time had already passed he then ran into someone on the
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street and used their phone to call 911 you guys need to get a a cop here quick sir the officers are on the
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way Amy's parents Penny and Tom Harwick are also speaking publicly For the First
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Time Michael Herman has a lot lot of Survivor guil oh my goodness he did the exact right thing he made all the right
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[Music] decisions