By ERICA ESTEP
6 News Reporter
KNOXVILLE (WATE) -- There is a new twist in the January murders of Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian. An East Knoxville woman says the suspects in the case broke into her home just a day before the couple was carjacked.
The single mother is afraid for her safety, so 6 News is protecting her identity. She lives less than a mile from the crime scene of the gruesome double murder on Chipman Street.
Her home was invaded by armed men a day before Newsom and Christian were carjacked. She says they are connected.
"I heard a big boom...they kicked...they kicked the door in."
The scuff marks are still visible where her front door was kicked in. She couldn't believe what happened next.
"I ran back into the room and they start shooting my door down," the woman says.
She says the suspects tried to get inside her bedroom. The door to the room is now ripped at the bottom.
The young mother's 13-year-old son and two friends were just a couple rooms away.
"I was screaming... ya'll stay down," she says.
But there was someone else in the house. A male friend who had a gun of his own. He shot back and the suspects took off.
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