3 fight invader out of home
Deputies say a man broke through door and injured women
DEERFIELD BEACH — Whenan intruder shattered a Deerfield Beach home’s sliding glass door before dawn Sunday and charged in spewing death threats, the three women inside slashed at the enraged man with a knife and held him at gunpoint until deputies arrived, an arrest report said.
Two of the women were injured during the 3:19 a.m. struggle in the 300 block of Northwest 37th Street and taken to a hospital for treatment, the report said. Their conditions were not available Tuesday.
Deputies chased a bloodied man from the home. When Joseph Alec Zappo, 21, was forced to the ground and handcuffed, he cursed and spat at the arresting deputy. Records show Zappo lives less than a half-mile away, on Northwest 39th Street.
“It should be noted that Zappo does not knowany of the victims,” Deputy Kirk Blackson wrote in his report. “Two of the victims were hospitalized as a result of Zappo’s violent actions.”
The unexpected Valentine’s Day burst of violence began when Zappo showed up in the home’s fenced-in backyard and banged his fists on the glass door, ac-
cording to the report.
When Kathleen Bolling, 54, told Zappo to leave the property, the report said he smashed the door with a metal patio chair and charged inside, swinging the mangled chair and screaming, “I’m going to kill you! I’m going to get you b------!”
Zappo hit Bolling with the chair, punched and pinned her against the closed front door, police said. When Alexandra Reville, 23, and Deborah Williams tried to intervene, Zappo pummeled them with his fists, the report said.
None of the women could be reached for comment Tuesday.
“During the struggle, all of the women wound up on the tile floor, which had been littered with large shards of broken glass from the door,” Blackson wrote.
Reville managed to hand a knife to Bolling, who used it to slash at Zappo, police said. Amid the chaos, “Reville may have been stabbed in the leg,” the report said.
After the women shoved Zappo out the front door and locked him out, he smashed two front windows and tried to climb back into the house head first. Now armed with a gun, Bolling held Zappo at gunpoint on the porch until deputies arrived, the report said.
Zappo ran off, heading west on Northwest 37th Street as police pulled up, and the women pointed the deputies in his direction. Before going to jail, Zappo was taken to Broward Health North for treatment his injuries.
Charged with three counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, burglary and battery on an officer, Zappo is being held without bond in the BrowardMain Jail.
Hewas also charged with one count of criminal mischief stemming from an incident in Pennsylvania, records show. Zappo has no prior arrest record in Florida.
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