The moment terrified Orange County family are tied up and held at gunpoint inside their $1million home by four masked intruders
The moment terrified Orange County family is tied up and held at gunpoint in their $1 million home by four masked intruders
- The gang tasered a resident and tied up an elderly woman, a 14-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl
- Another woman managed to hide in a closet and whisper call 911
- Police seized one of the robbers – Danny Sommay – as he tried to escape, but the rest remain on the run
A terrified woman whispered down the line to 911 operators from a closet in her California home as four masked robbers tied up the rest of her family and held them at gunpoint.
The heavily armed gang stormed the $1.2 million Orange County home late Monday night and ordered the petrified family razed to the ground.
They used a stun gun to subdue the only man in the house and demanded to know where the family kept their valuables.
They then tied up the man, an older woman, a 14-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl before searching the house.
All the men wore masks as they forced their victims, including a seven-year-old girl, to the ground and tied them up. This photo was taken in the family home with one of their own cameras
The $1.2 million, three-bedroom Orange County home where the raid took place
The other adult woman had managed to hide and call 911.
Police arrived to find the family still tied up and the gang fleeing the house.
They arrested 29-year-old Banning resident Danny Sommay after he was seen throwing his gun over a brick wall.
They recovered the loaded 9mm pistol, which had previously been reported stolen, but the rest of the gang slipped through the net and remained at large despite a helicopter search from the nearby Huntington Beach Police Department.
Police arrived on the scene within minutes at 10:40 p.m. after receiving a whispered phone call from the woman
Three members of the gang remain at large despite an immediate police investigation using a helicopter
Sommay was booked into the Orange County Jail the next morning on charges of kidnapping, robbery, burglary, conspiracy to commit a crime, possession of a loaded and stolen firearm and armed criminal action.
His bail was set at $1 million.
Westminster police have not revealed whether anything was stolen during the raid or why the family was targeted.
The family’s condition has not been released.
Danny Sommay was arrested at the scene and is being held in the Orange County Jail on $1 million bail