Granny and 5-year old held at gunpoint in NYC home invasion as brutes steal nearly $15K: cops
A pair of brazen robbers barged into a Harlem apartment with guns blazing — past a 5-year-old boy who innocently opened the door – and stole about $15,000 during the early Wednesday heist, cops and sources said.
The callous ski-mask-wearing duo showed up at the apartment building on Manhattan Avenue near 118th Street around 1:20 a.m. and rang the doorbell, cops said.
A 5-year-old boy – who was at home with his 56-year-old grandma – answered the door, thinking his mom had come home, law enforcement sources said.
Instead, the boy and his grandma came face-to-face with the armed pair, who demanded, “Where is the safe?” sources said.
The pair swooped up the safe – holding $4,500 in cash – plus $10,000 in jewelry, as well as cellphones and three passports, the sources said.
The suspects – believed to be Hispanic men between 20 and 30 years old, both wearing all black – fled on foot, cops and sources said.
Both the boy and his grandmother were hospitalized for an evaluation but were not physically hurt, cops said.
A delivery worker managed to recover the stolen phones and passports about a block away, sources said.
No arrests had been made by later Wednesday.