Articles labeled: home invasion

We’re going to teach our kids the route to our local police station ASAP.

Shortly after midnight, three armed men in masks rang the doorbell at a home in the 17200 block of Park Lane and asked the homeowner where the drugs were kept. The homeowner said he didn’t know and the men forced their way inside the residence and began searching for drugs, Country Club Hills spokeswoman Wanda Comein said.

While the men were in the home, a renter came home with her 10-year-old daughter. The girl saw the men inside the home and ran away, Comein said.

When the girl could not be found, police thought the girl might have been kidnapped. However, the girl showed up at the police station, 4200 183rd St., a short time later and the kidnapping investigation was canceled, Comein said.

We hope if faced with a similar situation our nurturing instincts would kick in and we would think to save our child before ourselves. And why didn’t they call the cops after the first robbery?

An 8-year-old boy slept in his room Tuesday morning while gunmen forced their way into his house, shot and killed a family dog and sent his parents fleeing to the street.

Kevin Dummett, 35, and Kellin Hahn, 26, were the targets of two attempted robberies at their home Tuesday — both carried out by the same two men, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said.

The men approached Dummett in his driveway and tried to rob him at 12:15 a.m. He didn’t call 911. When the gunmen returned at 6 a.m. and broke in through the back door, the family pit bull charged them and was immediately shot.

Hahn and Dummett fled the home, leaving their son asleep in his bedroom, the sheriff’s office said.