'NCIS' star Pauley Perrette attacked near home

[AF-Roger]

NCIS actress Pauley Perrette, who plays the show's Goth crime lab tech Abby Scuito, had a real-life scare Thursday in Los Angeles. A "psychotic homeless man" jumped her on the street outside her home and punched her in the face several times.

"I almost died tonight," she wrote on Twitter. "Tonight was awful, life changing and I'm only grateful to be alive."

Perrette recounted the incident in detail in an essay, which she photographed and attached to her post. In it, she said the man kept telling her his name (William) and that he was going to kill her. "I was alone, terrified and trapped," she said, grateful he hadn't dragged her to a empty garage nearby. "I knew if he got me in there, I was dead."

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[T J Tutor]

She's right about the needs of the homeless and the mentally ill not receiving the attention and funding to help them. She sure got lucky on this one.