ORLANDO, Fla. – A mother begged for her life early Monday after two masked gunmen barged into her Orlando home in an apparent mistaken home invasion.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office said two people knocked on the door of a home in the 2800 block of Harwood Street and pushed their way inside when the woman came to the door. She told News 6 that she answered the door because she thought her neighbor was knocking.
According to deputies, the assailants said, "You know what we are here for," before they began to search the home, presumably for money.
"They terrorized us, and I was, like, 'Please do not kill me. Please don't kill me. I am a mother," the woman told News 6, adding that she was forced to wake up her family, including her two children, ages 11 and 17.
She said her brother and cousin were also inside the home.
The woman, who didn't want to use her name, said one of the gunman threatened to kill her youngest child, but no one was injured.
She said the men left after searching the house.
"I heard the one in the kitchen whisper something, and then they started to back out with the gun on me, and he said, 'Don't look at me. Don't look at me,' And I was, like, 'I'm not,'" she said.
Deputies said the assailants were wearing dark clothing and masks and drove off in a gray Chevrolet Impala.
"I pray to God that he picks you guys up and locks you up," the woman said. "But you live by the gun and die by the gun. God says that."