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Anthony Smith recounts life-or-death struggle to stop intruder during ‘terrifying’ home invasion

It’s hard for Anthony Smith to put into words the emotions he felt after his wife woke him up in a panic this past Sunday morning to tell him an intruder had broken into their Omaha, Neb., home.

The incident took place just past 4 a.m. on Sunday when a man later identified by the Douglas County (Neb.) sheriff’s department as Luke Haberman walked into Smith’s home through an open garage door after allegedly entering another house in the same neighborhood just minutes earlier.

“My wife wakes me up and just hits me hard and says, ‘Anthony, someone’s in the house,’” Smith said in an interview with MMA Fighting.