Watch VideoFamily held at gunpoint, home ransacked
Story By: Mark Hanrahan
Source: KOAA
Colorado Springs Police are investigating a home invasion robbery that happened early Monday morning. According to police reports, three men rang the doorbell shortly before 2:00am at 1809 of Kodiak Drive.
A 15-year-old boy answered the door and the men came inside. The father in the house then struggled with one of the three men. According to police, the gunman then pulled a gun, demanded everyone get on the floor, and held all the family members, including several children, at gunpoint while they ransacked it.
Kristi Claybourne lives at the house. She says, "They were saying if anybody moves, shoot them; if they flinch, shoot them." She says the three men held her and the others at gunpoint while they tore through their home. "He put a gun to the back of my head." Claybourne describes the suspects as black or hispanic, in their late teens or twenties, and less than six feet tall.
The hold-up lasted about a half-hour according to Claybourne, and the suspects took off with a Playstation, an X-box, and several video games. Claybourne says, "At the time I was thinking 'how could these black people be robbing black people on Martin Luther King's birthday?'"
The suspects fled on foot. Despite a search of the neighborhood, no suspects were arrested. The family said they all wore bandanas over their faces and jackets or sweatshirts with hoods.
