Crime & Safety
Mom, Son Forced To Lie Face Down During Home Invasion Robbery
The early morning incident at a home on Fairview Street in Cartersville lasted 5 minutes and resulted in the theft of more than $1,100.
A man and his mother say they were forced to lie face down on the floor early Wednesday after two men with guns woke them, demanding money and more guns.
The home-invasion robbery at a home on Fairview Street in Cartersville lasted 5 minutes, according to the Cartersville Police Department incident report. Officers were dispatched at 1:05 a.m. and arrived to find one of the victims, a 55-year-old woman, "hysterical," and "yelling out, 'They held a gun to my son's head and took everything,'" an officer wrote in the report.
The woman told police a man brandishing a gun woke her up about 1 a.m. and ordered her out of bed, into her son's room and face down on the floor. She said a second man, "had her son at gunpoint and kept yelling, 'Where the guns and the money?'"
Her son, 32, said a man pointing a gun in his face woke him and told him to lie face down in the floor. The victim complied, but told the robbers he didn't have any guns.
He said he looked up to check on his mother and one of the robbers hit him in the back of the head and ordered he keep his head down. The victims said the men threatened to kill them if they didn't remain lying down.
The men, who police believe entered the home through an unlocked window, took two flat-screen TV's, a Sony Playstation, cash, a cell phone and three credit cards, collectively valued at more than $1,100.
Police found a 14-inch butcher knife outside the unlocked window, which didn't belong to the victims, according to the report.
The woman told police a man brandishing a gun woke her up about 1 a.m. and ordered her out of bed, into her son's room and face down on the floor. She said a second man, "had her son at gunpoint and kept yelling, 'Where the guns and the money?'"
Her son, 32, said a man pointing a gun in his face woke him and told him to lie face down in the floor. The victim complied, but told the robbers he didn't have any guns.
He said he looked up to check on his mother and one of the robbers hit him in the back of the head and ordered he keep his head down. The victims said the men threatened to kill them if they didn't remain lying down.
The men, who police believe entered the home through an unlocked window, took two flat-screen TV's, a Sony Playstation, cash, a cell phone and three credit cards, collectively valued at more than $1,100.
Police found a 14-inch butcher knife outside the unlocked window, which didn't belong to the victims, according to the report.
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