A 77-year-old woman who survived a violent attack inside her home is sharing her story and urging others to stay alert.

“If you'd have seen his face, his eyes, it was something out of nowhere,” June Gruebel said.

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Gruebel may be bruised, but she said she refuses to let the man who forced his way into her Fort Worth home Monday night “get the best of her.”

“He came through the door. I said, ‘What do you want?’ and he came in, and he took that fist, and he hit me,” Gruebel said, describing the start of what she called a brutal assault.

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“He kept me down, and he kicked me in the side, kicked me in the back, and put his foot on my back, and he was just like jumping

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