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.


Home invaders, one armed with gun, barge into Upper Manhattan home w/ 5-yo boy inside and steal about $15K in items
A 5-year-old boy came face-to-face with the armed robbers when he answered the door, sources said. Google Maps

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.


Home invaders, one armed with gun, barge into Upper Manhattan home w/ 5-yo boy inside and steal about $15K in items
The suspects swooped up the safe — holding $4,500 in cash – plus $10,000 in jewelry, as well as cell phones and three passports, sources said. Google Maps

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.