UPDATED: HEMET: Parolee, former 3-striker, arrested after beating 8-year-old girl during home invasion robbery

UPDATE: Thursday, Sept. 7, 4 p.m.

HEMET — The day after an 8-year-old girl survived after fending off an attack by a parolee who broke into her home, her mother is speaking out and talking about her daughter’s bravery during the “terrifying” ordeal.

The second grader was home alone for a few minutes after school, while waiting for an older sibling to return home from school when a 35-year-old Hemet man broke into her home. The parolee began beating the little girl when he found her hiding in a closet while she was on the phone with 911 dispatchers.

The girl is being hailed a “hero” by police officials and yesterday, one firefighter at the scene called the victim, “the bravest little girl I’ve ever met.”

Her mother, who only wanted to be identified as Jasmine, said her daughter had come home after school let out for the day and was home alone for a short time while waiting for her older sister to arrive home from school.

As the girl waited, she said she heard a knock on her door. She did not answer the door, as she had been taught by her family never to answer the door when she is home alone.

A few minutes later, the young victim realized a man she did not recognize was at the rear, sliding door of the residence and she could see that he was trying to break into the home.

The terrified girl grabbed a phone and ran to a bedroom where she hid in a closet and immediately called 911 to report the home invasion.

While the little girl was on the phone with City of Hemet emergency communications dispatchers the suspect, who was later identified as Darrell Hosie, 35, of Hemet, walked into the bedroom and found the victim hiding inside the closet.

“As the juvenile remained on 911, the suspect entered the room where the juvenile was hidden,” Davis explained in an earlier press release. Despite the fact that the child was hiding, Hosie “located the juvenile” and began repeatedly striking the victim “in the head and face,” said Davis.

According to Jasmine, her daughter managed to fend off Hosie’s attack and scared him away when she began screaming for help. Officers, who had been racing to the home from every end of the city, began arriving just as Hosie fled from the residence.

He was apprehended after a short foot pursuit and was taken down by an officer who fired a less-lethal Tazer device at the fleeing man.

Hosie, was later determined to be out of prison on an early-release parole, had received early release from prison after a “third strike” conviction was stricken from an 18 year prison sentence he received for a 2003 burglary.

After he was arrested and medically cleared, Hosie was booked into the Cois Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on suspicion of home invasion robbery, willful harm to a child, resisting arrest and violation of parole.

An online jail records search revealed Hosie remains in custody, held without bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned at an unspecified court tomorrow, Sept. 8.

 

HEMET — A parolee, who received early release from prison after a “third strike” conviction was stricken from an 18 year prison sentence he received for a 2003 burglary was arrested today, after he allegedly attacked a defenseless juvenile during a home invasion robbery. The robbery and beating happened Wednesday, Sept. 6, in the 900 block of E. Acacia Avenue, near S. Santa Fe Street, in Hemet.

The minor, who has not been identified by name, gender or age, was home alone and on the phone with a 911 emergency dispatcher when officials allege the suspect burst in and began beating the child “in the head and face,” Hemet Police Lt. Jeff Davis explained after the incident and arrest.

Hemet police officers apprehended Darrell Hosie, 35, of Hemet, after he fled from them when they arrived and interrupted, just as Hosie was attacking the minor. During the foot pursuit, an officer used a Tazer deployment to bring the alleged suspect down.

As of this report, Hosie was at an area hospital awaiting medical clearance so he could be booked into Riverside County Jail on suspicion of home invasion robbery, resisting arrest, and violation of parole, according to Davis, who said the career criminal was going to be held without bail.

It was not immediately known what, if any, charges Hosie could be facing regarding the attack on the juvenile during the home invasion.

The investigation into the violent incident began about 1:45 p.m., when City of Hemet’s Public Safety Communications Center received a frantic 911 call from a juvenile. The minor reported that an unknown male suspect, later identified as Hosie, was outside his family’s residence and attempting to gain entry into the home.

The juvenile fled to a bedroom in the home and hid, while calling 911 to report that they were home alone and someone was trying to break into the residence.

While trying to keep the minor calm and remaining on the phone with the terrified child, the public safety dispatcher notified and dispatched every available unit in the city to the location.

“As the juvenile remained on 911, the suspect entered the room where the juvenile was hidden,” Davis explained. Despite the fact that the child was hiding, Hosie “located the juvenile” and began repeatedly striking the victim “in the head and face,” said Davis.

As the dispatcher was still on the phone with the child hearing the attack happening, she updated officers, who were already beginning to arrive at the scene and in the area. Hearing the officers’ approach and arrival, the alleged suspect stopped attacking the child and fled from the home, with officers in hot pursuit behind him.

“Officers apprehended the suspect after a brief foot pursuit and deployment of a conducted electrical weapon,” Davis explained.

After hearing of their child’s terrifying ordeal, the juvenile’s parent rushed home. Paramedics and American Response medics evaluated and treated the young victim at the scene after which the minor remained at the residence with family members.

This is a developing story and will be updated as additional information becomes available.

 

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Trevor Montgomery runs Riverside County News Source and Shasta County News Source. Additionally, he writes for Riverside County based newspapers Valley News, The Valley Chronicle and Anza Valley Outlook and also writes for Bonsall/Fallbrook Village News in San Diego County.

Trevor spent 10 years in the U.S. Army as an Orthopedic Specialist before joining the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in 1998. He was medically retired after losing his leg, breaking his back and suffering both spinal cord and brain injuries in an off-duty accident.

During his time with the sheriff’s department, Trevor worked at several different stations, including Robert Presley Detention Center, Southwest Station in Temecula, Hemet/Valle Vista Station, Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center and Lake Elsinore Station, along with other locations.