MANOR HEIGHTS, Staten island (WABC) — Police are investigating an armed robbery on Staten Island that ended with a family being attacked. The mother spoke out to Eyewitness News about their ordeal.
Officials say suspects broke into a home on Livingston Avenue and Queen Street just before 1 a.m. Monday.
Surveillance video shows four people entering the home one by one, three of them armed with guns.
Authorities say they got into the home by kicking in a door. In the video, one of the suspects looks through a drawer while two others walk down the hallway and enter different rooms.
A 33-year-old woman, her 5-year-old daughter, and 4-year-old son, as well as a 54-year-old live-in nanny, were home during the robbery, police said.
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The woman invited Eyewitness News into her home. She didn’t want to go on camera, but she did walk us through what happened.
The mom had to get stiches and she and the 5-year-old have bruises on their faces.
She told Eyewitness News she didn’t hear the men break the door down and was only woken up when they turned on her bedroom light and put a gun to her head.
She says they hit her with the gun and then slammed her into a wall. At this point, she says she was in such shock that she didn’t really even feel the pain.
Then, she says the men brought her 5-year-old girl in the room, she already had injuries to her face. They then brought the live-in nanny into the room as well.
She says the men kept demanding cash and says she kept insisting that she had none.
The woman believes the intruders targeted their home and that the men knew her husband was not home at the time.
The 5-year-old will be okay physically. She just has a lot of bruising, but she was in a good mood.
Police provided surveillance pictures of the suspects. They are asking anyone who knows any information, or who recognizes anything about these suspects, to contact police at 1800-577-8477 (TIPS).
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