After recovering from her wounds, Murrieta resident Cyndye Polsgrove recounted how she survived a harrowing home invasion despite being stabbed in the head.

"Evil came to Murrieta," she said. "I stared it in the face and I won."

Polsgrove said on the morning of Nov. 5, a man she'd never seen before, Manuel Arturo Alvarez, hopped over her backyard fence, broke into her home through the back door and stabbed her husband Bob Brink before turning his attention to her.

"I just think he say my husband and he was set to kill," Polsgrove said.

She grabbed her cell phone and dialed 911, hoping to get help for her husband. Before she could give her address to the dispatcher, she saw Alvarez turn the corner and walk into her living room.

"He came through this way and stood in front of me, an

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