CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – A home invasion was thwarted last month when the homeowner stabbed an attacker with a sword concealed in a walking cane.
Gustavio Rousseau, 21, was arrested Wednesday and charged with especially aggravated robbery in the incident, according to court records obtained by Clarksville Now.
On June 24 around 12:15 a.m., a man called Clarksville Police to report a home invasion in the 400 block of Bluff Drive. The homeowner said he heard a loud crash and his wife screaming.
The documents said that after the homeowner got out of bed, he encountered Rousseau, who entered his bedroom and struck him on the head with a blunt object. The homeowner fought back and pushed Rousseau far enough away so that he could get to his feet. The homeowner then went to another bedroom and got a walking cane that had a sword inside.
The homeowner stabbed Rousseau with the sword and said he believed he wounded him in the upper torso.
In the court documents, it’s alleged that Rousseau entered the home with another attacker. At the time Rousseau was upstairs in a struggle with the homeowner, his wife was downstairs fighting off the other attacker.
She heard the back door kicked open, and the other attacker then hit her on the head several times with a blunt object, the documents said.
This attacker took the wife’s personal and work phones.
The documents allege that Rousseau called a friend on Snapchat at 2 a.m. and said things went badly and that he was stabbed three times, according to audio recordings retrieved by police. He also told his friend he thought he had internal bleeding, the documents said.
Rousseau also reached out to another friend via Snapchat and left a message that he was hurt badly and didn’t think he was going to see him again.
The victim’s phones were recovered around the halfway point between the victims’ home and Rousseau’s home.
Rousseau was also charged in connection with a stabbing in 2018, but those charges have since been dismissed.