KENT, Wash. — A Kent homeowner is terrified after someone broke into her home not once, but twice, in less than six months.
Video surveillance shared by the homeowner shows the second time she was robbed, just last night, while she was out on a walk with her dog.
“I went for a 15-minute walk, they were following me around,” said homeowner Harvinder Kaur.
She says that while arriving at her home on SE 218th Pl, she saw a suspicious silver SUV outside her house, saw her front door left open, and went to watch her surveillance video before calling the police.
Two men can be seen in the video walking up and breaking down the door. This is the same door that was broken down just months earlier, in January.
“I can’t sleep, I can’t sleep this time. All night I was awake. I got to bed until I saw the daylight,” Kaur said.
Kaur’s daughter, Ruby Basi, is frustrated seeing that thieves would target her mom twice for her hard-earned valuables.
“I feel like people didn’t follow up on it but this time, I’m not giving up until this person is arrested or these people are arrested,” Basi said.
KIRO 7 spoke to the homeowner, Kaur, and her daughters after the first break-in, too. Surveillance video from January showed just one person, who Kaur’s daughter says just “walked out the front door with the safe.”
They say the person in the video took hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of valuables from her home, including expensive jewelry and antiques — a big chunk of her life’s savings.
Kaur and her family now say the men took up to $40,000 in jewelry.
They’re grateful she didn’t encounter these thieves, but it was a close call.
Surveillance video shows Kaur just missing the thieves by just a few seconds.
“The lucky thing is that she was pulling in when they left from the front. So this happened at the same exact time. I’m in an again if somebody was here, but if my kids were here,” Basi said.
The family is urging police to find these people responsible.
“They need to step up to the plate and handle the situation so it doesn’t happen to someone,” Basi added.
If you recognize anyone in the surveillance videos, you’re asked to call Kent police at 253-852-2121.
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