STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Staten Island family is shaken and bruised after a violent home-invasion robbery in which a woman and a child were allegedly pistol-whipped early Sunday morning, the Daily News is reporting.
The terrifying episode began on Monday just before 12:45 a.m., when four unidentified individuals allegedly kicked in the front door of a home in the vicinity of Livingston Avenue and Queen Street in Meiers Corners, according to a statement by the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information.
“They turned on the light and they put a gun to me and said, ‘B—-, where’s the money?” the 33-year-old woman told the News.
One of the individuals then proceeded to hit the woman in the face with the butt of his pistol, before one of the gunmen allegedly brought in the family’s nanny and the woman’s 5-year-old daughter, whose eye was black and blue, the report said.
The individuals were strangers to the victims, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.
“When they brought (my daughter) to my room I was in shock,” the woman told the News. “I (thought) ‘they’re never going to wake up the kids.’ And then I saw her, and I was in shock. I said, ‘Just take whatever you want!’” When we were all in the room like hostages, I was like, ‘We can die right now.’ The minute they left, we started crying hysterically. Everything was blood, and all of my face was (bloody).”
The individuals then removed a cellphone before fleeing the house by unknown means, according to police.
The victims suffered lacerations and bleeding and were taken by EMS to Staten Island University Hospital in Ocean Breeze for treatment, police said.
The motive is not known as this time, but the woman told the News that she believed the house was targeted because her husband wasn’t at home.
Because the suspects wore masks, descriptions are not yet available for them, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.
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