LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas family is living in fear after two men broke in while their teenage daughter hid in a bedroom closet.
17-year-old Maxeen is still shook up after what happened inside her home near Cactus and Interstate 15 on Saturday.
“It sucks to just be alone and I’ve never been in a situation like that,” she said.
Maxeen said she was home alone Saturday when someone started ringing the doorbell repeatedly around 2:30 p.m.
Maxeen felt something was wrong, and that’s when she says a man showed up in the backyard breaking in through the sliding glass door.
“I tried to call my mom but she was at work, so I kind of ran upstairs and I knew he was going to come to the back,” the teen said.
Maxeen dialed 911 and hid in one of the closets in a bedroom.
The home’s interior surveillance camera shows two men running up the stairs where Maxeen was hiding.
Maxeen’s mom is thankful her daughter is OK, but says this frightening ordeal has hit the entire family.
“We’re very disturbed right now,” Maxeen's mother, Barbara, said. “It feels like it’s not real, but it is. So we got affected by it and everyone is so scared.”
The family said the burglars actually left their getaway ride outside the home when they left.
They took a picture of it and hope that vehicle will lead police to the two.
