Video: Queens home invasion suspect creeps around bedroom while victim sleeps

ByJim Dolan WABC logo
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Burglar caught creeping in family's bedroom while they slept in Queens
Jim Dolan has the story.

FLUSHING, Queens -- Police are investigating a terrifying home invasion in Queens in which the suspect was caught on camera creeping around the bedroom while the male homeowner slept in his bed.

Camera's outside caught the burglar on the street before he entered the house in Flushing.

The camera inside the home's living room saw him as he entered the house at about 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday.

It took nearly half an hour of skulking around the house before the burglar is seen on his hands and knees, with a knife in his mouth, in the homeowner's bedroom.

"They were not sleeping, they had just got to bed, they were still up," said a resident of the home.

One resident didn't want us to show his face, but he said the owner of the home and his wife were still awake.

That surveillance camera outside is for security. The one in the bedroom is actually a baby monitor. The parents use it to keep an eye on the children after the children have gone to bed. There were three kids sleeping in that room. At 2:30 in the morning, the parents were in bed as well and they heard someone moving in the room.

"He thought it might be one of the kids, but he looked to be much bigger than the kids," the resident said.

He is much bigger. Police say the burglar is 6'2" tall and maybe 200 pounds. He was wearing all black, but the ski hat he was wearing had the word "diamond" on it.

The suspect removed a Samsung S6 cell phone from on top of a bedroom dresser.

The owner shouted and the burglar ran away.