Mom, Child And Elderly Man Terrorized In BK Home Invasion: Cops

BROOKLYN, NY — Police are looking for two men who terrorized an elderly man, a mom and her 6-year-old son in a home invasion in Boerum Hill earlier this week, according to police.

The two men knocked on the family's door just before 7 p.m. on Monday in a building near Warrant Street and Third Avenue, according to police.

When the 87-year-old man opened it, the two thieves forced their way inside the apartment, slapped him in the face and took out a hammer, police said. They then tied the elderly man to a chair.

One of the men took our a gun and brandished it at the 38-year-old mom and her 6-year-old son, police said.

The thieves eventually made them all wait inside the bathroom while they fled the apartment with $8,000 in cash, a wallet and a cell phone, police said.

Police said one of the men wore a beige hat, black sunglasses, a gray and white shirt, beige pants and beige shoes. The second wore a black baseball cap, a neon green safety vest, a white shirt, blue jeans and black sneakers.

They released photos of them taken from surveillance video:

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls are strictly confidential.