East Point, Georgia — In a harrowing early Thursday morning ordeal, a woman with a knife lodged in her head carried her two young children out of a nightmare of violence and sexual assault, according to police reports and court documents. Her desperate leap from a second-story window in an attempt to escape a family member turned suspect set off a chaotic series of events that ended only hours later with an arrest in Doraville.
Police say officers were called just after 11:00 a.m. on January 8 to an apartment complex on Harlan Drive in East Point after a 911 call reported a violent assault. When they arrived, they found the woman bloodied and in shock, with a large kitchen knife still protruding from her head. The scene was described by authorities as one of severe trauma, yet the woman was alive and clinging to consciousness.
Inside the apartment, the victim told officers she had been sexually assaulted and stabbed by 36-year-old Rodriguez Fogle, a relative identified in an arrest warrant obtained by local media. The warrant further alleges that Fogle brutally attacked her before she made the split-second decision to jump from the window with her children in tow.
A child who was inside the apartment later told investigators he woke to the sound of a violent struggle, saw Fogle stabbing the woman in the face, and then tried to intervene. That child suffered a blow to the head in the chaos and was treated for a bleeding laceration.
Police reports also paint a disturbing picture of what happened after the woman’s leap for safety. The violent assault allegedly continued outside the apartment where Fogle stabbed the victim multiple additional times in full view of her children and a neighbor who later called authorities. During the attack, Fogle reportedly confiscated the victim’s phones, threatening that she would not be allowed to call for help.
After the attack in East Point, Fogle is accused of forcing his way into a second apartment nearby, where he allegedly threatened another woman with a knife and demanded the keys to her vehicle while her child was inside. The frantic encounter ended without further physical injury, but it added another layer of terror to the unfolding crisis.
Law enforcement located the vehicle hours later at a RaceTrac gas station on Van Fleet Circle in Doraville. Doraville police took Fogle into custody without incident and returned him to East Point where he faces charges related to aggravated assault, sexual assault, and multiple counts of violent conduct.
Neighbors and witnesses described the day as surreal and terrifying, struggling to reconcile the quiet residential complex with the brutality that had erupted in its heart. The victim remains hospitalized, receiving care for her injuries, while her children are with protective services and family members as the investigation continues and prosecutors build their case.
The arrest of Rodriguez Fogle underscores the vigilance of law enforcement in the face of unpredictable violence, but it also highlights the resilience of a mother who fought for her children’s safety amid unimaginable circumstances. Further court proceedings are expected to shed more light on the assault and the suspect’s motives as the community grapples with the aftermath.
