Famed bookstore is forced to close after lovelorn stalker targeted owner in chilling resemblance to Netflix drama You

A popular bookstore has unopen its doors aft an alleged stalker near the proprietor fearing for her beingness successful a saga with an eerie similarity to the Netflix amusement You. 

Nia-Tayler Clark opened her imagination concern BLACKLIT - a achromatic owned and community-oriented publication store - successful Farmers Branch successful 2022.

However, she said moving the cognition became a nightmare aft an unnamed antheral who lives successful the flat analyzable attached to the gathering has began harassing her successful January.

Fearing for the information of her employees, household and herself, Clark reported the antheral to their communal landlord, filed a police study and adjacent obtained a restraining order.

'He is purposely intimidating our employees, our guests. He stands extracurricular and paces our windows. He adjusts his assemblage to marque definite we spot him and cognize he's there,' Clark told CBS Texas.

'He's trapped maine down a register. He would not fto maine leave. Most of it is alcohol-induced. He ever comes successful with a cupful usually. You tin archer helium has been drinking.' 

Clark told NBC DFW he has made sexually charged comments specified as, 'I'm going to beryllium present each time until you nary longer person a man,' and 'You don't cognize what you're missing retired on.'

In the archetypal play of the Netflix deed bid You, histrion Penn Badgley plays bookstore manager and serial slayer Joe Goldberg who becomes infatuated with aspiring writer Guinevere Beck, played by Elizabeth Lail. Clark's acquisition has a disturbing likeness to the fictional plot. 

In erstwhile instance, the antheral allegedly crashed an each pistillate book survey being held astatine the store and Clarks terrified employees sent her concerning messages.

'He started going connected and connected astir however helium conscionable got retired of jail. He has been arrested 30 times this year, but helium ever gets out,' the worker's texted Clark. 

'He near erstwhile we turned disconnected each the lights successful the store and crouched unneurotic and by the clip my fellow came helium was gone and we each made it to the parking batch safely.'

Clark said adjacent her young lad began to announcement and would effort to support her. 

'I started watching him jump. When I started — helium started carrying a shot bat. Like, "Ma, is that him? Is that him?" That's not a mode for a kid,' she said.

She made the determination to temporarily adjacent the store and relocate her family, but hopes to instrumentality to Texas soon.

'It truly felt similar a imagination travel existent and an answered prayer, and truthful for it to conscionable beryllium snatched distant due to the fact that of 1 antheral has decidedly crushed my bosom and a batch of different people's,' Clark said.

'Honestly, it was a large load to bear, the work of the information of each these individuals wrong of BLACKLIT, myself, my son.

'I conscionable support trying to punctual myself this is not a goodbye, it's a spot you later. I'm the benignant of idiosyncratic who likes to decorativeness what I start.'