RHON­DOR DOWLAT

Se­nior Re­porter 

rhon­dor.dowlat@guardian.co.tt 

In a bru­tal home in­va­sion ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing, two res­i­dents of Savonet­ta, Cal­i­for­nia, en­dured a har­row­ing or­deal at the hands of three armed in­trud­ers. 

The vic­tims, a 70-year-old and a 49-year-old, were asleep in their home at Phoenix Park Road when the break-in oc­curred.

Ac­cord­ing to the in­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cer, PC Boodoos­ingh,  the vic­tims se­cured their home around 9 pm on Tues­day, lock­ing all doors and win­dows be­fore go­ing to bed. 

At ap­prox­i­mate­ly 3.10 am on Wednes­day, they were jolt­ed awake by the pres­ence of three masked in­trud­ers in their bed­room.

The first sus­pect, de­scribed as a slim-built male armed with a knife, climbed on top of one of the vic­tims, sti­fling her with a pil­low. Mean­while, the sec­ond sus­pect held the oth­er vic­tim from be­hind, press­ing a knife to her neck. The third sus­pect looked on as the vic­tims were ter­rorised.

The quick-think­ing vic­tims man­aged to raise an alarm, caus­ing the sus­pects to flee through a side door on the west­ern side of the build­ing. 

In their es­cape, the in­trud­ers took a quan­ti­ty of cash, cig­a­rettes, and wrap­ping pa­per from a par­lour at the front of the home. 

The val­ue of the stolen items has yet to be de­ter­mined.

The sus­pects, all de­scribed as slim-built males of un­known de­scent, wore dark cloth­ing and ski masks to con­ceal their iden­ti­ties. 

The po­lice are ap­peal­ing to the pub­lic for any in­for­ma­tion that could as­sist in ap­pre­hend­ing these dan­ger­ous in­di­vid­u­als.

This brazen at­tack has left the com­mu­ni­ty on edge, high­light­ing the need for in­creased vig­i­lance and se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures. 

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.