BAKERSFIELD, CA. - Alleged stalker Gregory Thomas Miller was shot in Rosedale over the weekend after a neighbor intervened in a confrontation between Thomas and a woman. But Miller said there is more to the story.
Miller said in a jailhouse interview that he's not a stalker...just misunderstood.
"Going over there I wanted to know 'are you going to be with me or not?'" said Miller. "I gotta know that before I give up and I never got a definite no. I guess that was perceived as stalking but I guess that was just a lack of communication. Well, I guess that was just on my part she was telling me to get the hell out there and I didn't hear her say it."
Miller enterted a not guilty plea in court yesterday afternoon to charges of charges of stalking, battery, elder abuse and criminal threats.
Miller's accused of stalking a rosedale woman and was found inside her home last Saturday..
Sheriff's deputies say the woman's 74-year-old neighbor, Ronnie Green, heard screams and ran next door to help..and that miller threatened him with a knife.
Deputies say Green shot Miller in the foot before the suspect drove away.
He was arrested several blocks away after crashing his car.
Miller claims a series of text messages sent to his love intrest prove that he is not crazy, just acting out of "emotion."
Miller, who has five previous DUI convictions, will be back in court for a preliminary hearing Dec. 9.