What would you do if a stranger came to your door, looking for someone who doesn’t live in your home? What if they kept doing it for months?
Kansas City grandmother Lisa Bradbury is in just that quandary, according to Fox 4.
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Over the past several months, a woman has come to Bradbury’s apartment door around 15 times searching for a man named Harold. Bradbury said the woman often comes with groceries and seems like she is going somewhere to meet a friend.
The visitor will come at all hours of the day, from 7 a.m.
to 9 p.m. She will often bang on Bradbury’s door until someone opens it.
Bradbury said she believes the woman is in her 70s and that she doesn’t appear to be homeless. Sometimes, the woman will hide in her car and run up the block to Bradbury’s door.
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“I really feel sorry for her because I’m like, something has happened in her life that has brought her back here, and that she has something going on mentally, and there’s something she wants to see or a person she wants to talk to,” Bradbury said.
Although Bradbury feels sympathy for the woman, she has become concerned for her own safety, as the stranger becomes more and more agitated each time she comes. Bradbury has contacted the police, who have asked the woman to leave Bradbury’s property and not to come back.
Each time, the woman comes back anyway.
“I want her to get help, but I also want the situation to stop,” Bradbury said.
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Going forward, both the Kansas City Police Department and Bradbury said they want to identify the woman and get her the help she needs. According to Fox 4, the department’s Crisis Intervention team may be able to help.
“Even if they’re close to capacity we could bring her in there get her set up with a case manager, and that’s when the dominoes really start falling into place,” said Sgt. Sean Hess. He said people who call 911 can request that a team member be sent to emergencies.
“They’re able to find out – do we know them? Do they have a history? Have they been engaged before?” Hess said of the team. “And family is a big key if we can find history from the family about what’s going on.”
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