Twitch streamer Holle Knoll said her ex-abuser had “evil” in his eyes when he showed up at her new boyfriend’s apartment with a shotgun and opened fire on them – hitting him in the leg before wounding two responding officers and taking his own life in a violent shootout .
“The look in her eyes when I saw her at the door, she looked so evil,” Knoll, 29, told The Post through tears, just two days after the terrifying incident at her boyfriend Hunter Avallone’s West Virginia apartment 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 staunch the flow of blood from her leg while 29-year-old Conrad Carriker allegedly knocked on their door and exchanged blows. gunfire erupted 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 fleeing the home she shared with Carriker, who she said had been terrifyingly abusive throughout their 11-year relationship.
But the horror is far from over.
Holle Knoll is seen after being filmed in a screen grab from a video posted to X. @HunterAA6/Twitter
Shortly after arriving in West Virginia, Knoll found Apple AirTags hidden in his luggage, which he said Carriker openly admitted to planting so he could find out where Avallone lived.
“Tell him I’ll see him soon,” Carriker allegedly replied in a text message shared online when Knoll confronted him about the tracker. He said Carriker had begun threatening to kill Avallone as their relationship progressed from a simple friendship over the previous three months.
Five days after the discovery, Avallone received a call from his landlord saying a man with a suitcase had been wandering around the building trying to get in and claiming to be friends with him. Afraid that it might be Carriker who followed through on his threat, Avallone and Knoll walked cautiously downstairs and peered out the glass door of the building.
Knoll and ex-boyfriend Conrad Carriker, who shot her. Hello Peno
Carriker appeared suddenly from around the corner, they said, shotgun in hand as he approached them with a blank face.
“After he saw us, it was like something changed, like he had no expression on his face. Like he turned to just being evil,” Avallone said.
“He did that,” Knoll added. “He’s like Jekyll and Hyde. He’s been like that for 11 years. It’s scary.”
Avallone said he rooted to the spot trying to make sense of what he saw, but Knoll, guessing what Carriker was doing there, sprang into action and threw himself between them.
“He bet he wasn’t going to kill her because he had made it clear that he wanted to kill me,” Avallone said.
Knoll’s wounds after being shot in the leg by her abusive ex-boyfriend. Hello Peno
“I want to make sure it’s really clear how brave Holle is. He really saved my life, he also knew that this man intended to kill me. And he took a very bold bet. Bet he won’t kill her.”
The pair fled into their building, just as Carriker unloaded a round through the glass door. Knoll was hit by a ricocheting slug just outside his right kneecap and showered with shards of glass, leaving him bleeding profusely as they ran to the apartment and locked the door.
“He had to follow my blood trail through the apartment to find out what 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 as they tried to suffocate his blood flow with sweatshirts, and within seconds Carriker was knocking on their front door and trying to free him.
Avallone’s viral footage captured the moment officers arrived, yelling at Carriker to surrender before a loud gunshot rang out. Knoll then began texting Carriker, begging him to turn himself in safely and explaining that he had hurt her.
Damage to the apartment from the shooting where Knoll was shot. Hello Peno
“I sent him a picture of my leg and I was like, ‘I’m bleeding. I need help. I need you to surrender. I don’t want to die.’ And that’s when he shot himself,” Holle said.
“This was when the police surrounded him, and he also I think realized he had hurt Holle, and I don’t know if that was his intention or not. And I think it’s become too much,” Avallone added.
After the incident, Knoll’s sister found receipts on Carriker’s computer that showed she had followed him across the country once he left for West Virginia, and had been in the Avallone neighborhood for at least a day before the alleged incident.
It remains 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. Gun dealers in the state are required to do background checks, but private sellers are not.
Carriker suffered from mental health problems for years in Washington, Knoll said, including threats of suicide, self-harm that resulted in calls to the police and hospitalization, along with reports to police from friends and family about his aggressive behavior.
Carriker and Knoll (center-left) pose together among various Star Wars cosplayers. Hello Peno
Knoll’s wound looked worse than it turned out. The snail only penetrated his leg about an inch and miraculously required no stitches. Despite the trauma of the incident, Knoll said she’s still glad she chose to leave Carriker and advises others stuck in abusive relationships to take the leap and leave.
“Even if I went through that situation and ended up the way it did, I don’t need to be in it anymore,” he said. “Actually it’s better for me to go, and they should also dare to go.”
A GoFundMe campaign has been set up for Knoll and Avallone to help pay for medical bills and new housing.
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