Twitch streamer Holle Knoll said her abusive ex had “evil” in his eyes when he showed up at her new boyfriend’s apartment with a shotgun and opened fire on them, hitting her in the leg before wounding two responding officers and taking off. life in a violent shootout.
“The look in his eyes when I saw him at the door, he seemed so evil,” Knoll, 29, told The Post through tears, just two days after the terrifying incident at her boyfriend Hunter Avallone’s apartment in West Virginia on Friday.
Their ordeal went viral after Avallone, a popular YouTuber with more than half a million subscribers, posted footage from inside the apartment showing Knoll struggling to stop the flow of blood from his leg while Conrad Carriker, 29, , allegedly banged on the door and exchanged loud gunfire with the Martinsburg Police Department.
Knoll, better known online as Holle Peno, had traveled across the country from Washington days earlier to stay with Avallone after finally escaping the home she shared with Carriker, who she said had been horribly abusive during their 11-year relationship. years.
But its horrors were far from over.
Holle Knoll appears after being shot in a screenshot of a video posted on X. @HunterAA6/Twitter
Shortly after arriving in West Virginia, Knoll discovered Apple AirTags hidden in her luggage, and she said Carriker openly admitted to planting them so he could find out where Avallone lived.
“Tell him I’ll see him soon,” Carriker allegedly responded via text message shared online when Knoll confronted him about the trackers. He said Carriker had begun threatening to kill Avallone as their relationship developed from a simple friendship over the previous three months.
Five days after that discovery, Avallone received a call from his landlord saying that a man with a suitcase had been hanging around the building trying to get in and claiming to be his friend. Fearing that Carriker might carry out his threats, Avallone and Knoll cautiously descended the stairs and peered through the building’s glass front door.
Knoll and her ex-boyfriend Conrad Carriker, who shot her. Holly Peno
Carriker suddenly appeared around a corner, they said, with a shotgun in his hands as he advanced toward them with a blank face.
“The moment he saw us it was like something had changed, like he had no expression on his face. Like he went on to be just evil,” Avallone said.
“He does that,” Knoll added. “It’s like Jekyll and Hyde. He’s been like this for 11 years. It’s scary.”
Avallone said he was rooted to the spot trying to understand what he was seeing, but Knoll, guessing what Carriker was there to do, sprang into action and threw himself between them.
“She was betting that he would not kill her since he had expressly made known his intention to murder me,” Avallone said.
Knoll’s injury after her abusive ex-boyfriend shot her in the leg. Holly Peno
“I want to make sure it’s really clear how brave Holle was. She literally saved my life, she also knew this guy intended to kill me. And she made a really daring bet. Betting that she wouldn’t kill her.
The couple fled into their building, just as Carriker fired a bullet through the glass door. Knoll was hit by the bullet that ricocheted just outside her right kneecap and was peppered with glass shrapnel, leaving her bleeding profusely as they ran into the apartment and closed the door.
“He must have followed my blood trail through the apartment to know exactly which apartment we were in, because he didn’t know the layout,” Knoll said.
The two barricaded themselves on the apartment’s back porch and called 911 while trying to stop the flow of blood with a sweatshirt, and within moments Carriker was banging on the front door and trying to shoot it open.
Viral footage of Avallone captured the moment officers arrived, yelling at Carriker to surrender before a loud burst of gunshots rang out. Knoll then began texting Carriker, pleading with him to surrender safely and explaining that he had already hurt her.
Damage to apartment from the shooting in which Knoll was shot. Holly Peno
“I sent him a picture of my leg and thought, ‘I’m bleeding.’ I need help. I need you to give up. I don’t want to die.’ And that’s when he shot himself,” Holle said.
“This was at the time when the police had him surrounded, and I think he also realized that he had hurt Holle, and I don’t know if that was his intention or not. And I think he became too much,” Avallone added.
After the incident, Knoll’s sister found receipts on Carriker’s computer indicating that he had followed her across the country almost as soon as she left for West Virginia and that he had been in the Avallone neighborhood for at least a day. before the alleged shooting.
It is unclear when and where Carriker obtained the shotgun. Knoll said he never owned one in Washington “because he was suicidal” and believes he bought it in West Virginia, a state with notoriously lax gun control laws. Firearms dealers in the state are required to conduct background checks, but private sellers are not.
Carriker had years of mental health problems at his home in Washington, Knoll said, including threats of suicide, self-harm that resulted in police calls and hospitalization, along with reports to police from his friends and family about his aggressive behavior.
Carriker and Knoll (center left) pose together among several Star Wars cosplayers. Holly Peno
Knoll’s injury appeared worse than it turned out to be. The bullet only penetrated his leg about an inch and miraculously didn’t even require stitches. Despite the trauma of the incident, Knoll said she is still glad she chose to leave Carriker and advised anyone else trapped in an abusive relationship to take the leap and leave.
“Even though I went through the situation and ended up the way it ended, I don’t have to be in it anymore,” he said. “Actually, it’s better that I’m gone, and they should find the courage to leave too.”
GoFundMe campaigns have been created for both Knoll and Avallone to help pay for medical bills and new housing.
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