CORDOVA, TN -
(WMC-TV) - Former Galloway police officer, Brian Hubbard is now on the other side of the law. Hubbard is accused of two home invasion robberies in Cordova.
"It's awful, it's awful, it's bad," said Candyce Westmoreland, who lives in the neighborhood where the attempted robberies took place.
Police records say Hubbard knocked on the door of a home early Friday morning. When residents would not let Hubbard in, he wrapped a shirt around his hand and tried to break out a window.
Investigators say Hubbard also tried to enter through a back door, but when he could not get inside the home, he walked to another house about 300 yards away and tried to rob residents there.
"He yelled at me get on my knees so I got on my knees I was like what's going on what's going on I told him please let me see your badge and he denied it to me," one of the residents said.
Residents said he accused them of being illegal aliens and threatened to have them deported.
"He closed the door and locked it and I said to myself in my mind I said you know this is a robbery," the resident said.
Westmoreland said she called police after a 9-year old boy rang her doorbell and told her that a man was attacking his mom.
"And you could hear the screaming and yelling," Westmoreland said.
A woman at the house said after they gave Hubbard money a physical altercation broke out and she hit Hubbard in the face and legs with a trophy.
"I hit him I hit him but my mom she did all of it she had him in a headlock choking him he was yelling I can't breath I can't breathe my mom was like you tried to kill my son you know at this point I don't care," the resident said.
Soon after, police were in the neighborhood investigating the first attempted robbery and they got word that residents at the second home were holding a home invasion suspect.
When officers arrived Hubbard had to be taken to the hospital because of his injuries.
"She beat him up, that's what's so great about this story and I asked her why risk her life and it was because of her children she was defending her children cause she didn't know what he would do," Westmoreland said.
During the course of the investigation, Memphis Police spoke with officers in Galloway, Tennessee and learned that Hubbard was fired from the Galloway police department last Monday for insubordination.
He is now facing charges of robbery, burglary and impersonating a police officer.
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