'NCIS' actress Pauley Perrette assaulted in Hollywood

By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pauley Perrette, an actress on the popular U.S. television show "NCIS," was attacked in Los Angeles by a homeless man who punched her repeatedly in the face and made her fear for her life, she said in a social media post. Perrette wrote that on Thursday night she was walking on the street near her home when the man grabbed her and struck her on the nose and forehead while threatening to kill her. "There was an empty garage behind me and I knew if he got me in there I was dead," Perrette wrote in an emotional account of the incident that she shared via Twitter.