A pair of thieves struck a home while a man and his teenage grandson were sleeping early Friday morning.
Officers responded to the house on East 96th Street off of Spring Valley Road shortly after 3 a.m.
The thieves in this case are two men who made it across the backyard, through a screen door and broke into the home’s side door, leaving behind their muddy footprints.
Inside they terrorized a man and his grandson.
The man’s wife, Sherri Dean, came from work to find a ransacked house.
“He thought it was my grandson walking through the house and he asked what was going on in there and my grandson didn't say anything,” Dean said.
It was the pair of thieves.
“That one guy pointed a gun in my head you know – ‘You got the money?’ I said, ‘Sir I don't have no [sic] money,’” Dean’s husband said.
While he was face down on the ground, one of the two men went across the hallway where 14-year-old Marcus Lattimer woke up startled.
“He just asked me, ‘What kind of shoe size do you wear?’ I said ‘a seven.’”
The men dumped out the teen’s backpack and used it to carry the stolen items.
“They couldn't find money so I guess they took whatever they could get,” Dean said.
That included jewelry, jerseys, shoes and hats.
“Petty stuff,” Dean said. “Stuff that they can go buy themselves, go to work. I go to work for mine, you can go to work for yours, and it's somebody in this neighborhood I'm sure.”
The family said they’re working to add crime deterrents around the house, including trying to get rid of the overgrowth next door.
“Your home is a place of a safe haven not where you have to be on pins and needles and worry about somebody coming in to invade your privacy or your space or take the things that I've worked so hard for,” Dean said.
If you know anything about this home invasion, call police or the KC Crimestoppers at 816-474-TIPS (8477).
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Andres Gutierrez can be reached at andres.gutierrez@kshb.com
