HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — Police are on the hunt for two home invaders who held a mother at gunpoint while three children hid in a closet and called 911.
Henry County detectives released surveillance video of a 2016 Dodge Challenger and images of a man who they believe was one of two gunmen who broke into a home on Revere Drive before sun-up Tuesday. %
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“Something startled me. I woke up, and two guys were in my face with guns,” the mother of three said.
The mother of three, who Channel 2 Action News agreed to not identify, was asleep with her 2-year-old daughter cuddled by her side.
“She was asleep until they shot the gun. The shot woke the baby," the mother said.
In a Channel 2 Action News exclusive interview, the mother told Liz Artz how they forced her to the ground.
“He wouldn't let me up. The gun was to my head. The other (suspect) was tearing up the place," she said.
The mother told Artz the gunmen fired a shot at her head while demanding money and guns.
“’Where's the money? Where's the guns? We're going to shoot you!’ They were ransacking my room and my closet," she said.
The mother told Artz they don't own a gun, and other than what was in her purse, she didn’t have money in the house.
“They grabbed my purse, took what I had in my purse. I couldn't cough up something that I didn't have,” she said.
She said her 7-year-old son, her 14-year-old daughter, and her daughter's friend, who was spending the night, were hiding in an upstairs closet.
“I said, ‘Please don't bother my kids. Leave my kids out of this,’" she said.
The kids were on the phone to a 911 operator, pleading for help.
“My daughter told me later that the other guy came up stairs looking for them, kicked in the door to their room, didn't see them and came back down," she said.
Police told Artz they found the mother’s car keys outside. They said they found the victim’s cell phone, a gun and clothing they think belongs to the suspects at a house under construction at the top of the street. Police are hoping to recover fingerprints from the phone and DNA from the clothing.
Detectives are asking anyone who knows anything about this crime to call Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477.
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