Dad, daughter beaten as thief fires bullet into floor,
Date: Dec 11, 2006 9:26 AM
PUBLICATION: The Province
DATE: 2006.12.11
EDITION: Final
SECTION: News
PAGE: A9
BYLINE: Ethan Baron
SOURCE: The Province
ILLUSTRATION: Colour Photo: Wayne Leidenfrost, The Province / This is
thehouse on East 52nd Street in Vancouver that experienced a home
invasion with shots fired last night.
WORD COUNT: 260

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Home-invaders flee with $4,000: Dad, daughter beaten as thief fires
bullet into floor, demanding more cash

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A Vancouver teen feared she’d be killed when a trio of armed
home-invaders held a gun to her head and demanded money from her father.

The men, all wearing black bandanas over their faces, with black hoodies
and black gloves, kicked in the door to her home at East 52nd Avenue
near Main Street around 12:15 a.m. yesterday.

“I was on our couch in the living room,” said the 18-year-old, a Douglas
College student on a soccer scholarship.

All three men carried handguns, she said.

“My dad was sleeping. I was yelling and screaming for him to come out.
Then they threw me on the ground.”

When her father emerged from his bedroom, he too was thrown to the
floor.

“They demanded we give them money,” she said. “They asked, ‘Where’s
the
money? Where’s the money?’”

One man held a pistol to her head and said he’d kill her if her father
didn’t give them cash. She believed the man would shoot her, she said.

Her father was pistol-whipped several times and kicked, and led the
assailants to his bedroom, where he gave them about $4,000, money he
kept for emergencies, she said.

One of the men shot a bullet into the floor and demanded more cash.

“We told them we didn’t have any more money,” she said. “That’s
when
they kicked me in the face because they got angry. They said, ‘You’re
lying! You’re lying!’”

With no more money forthcoming, the men left, one shooting into the
living-room wall on the way out.

The men were Asian, about five foot six, and spoke unaccented English,
she said.

Her father, 49, who operates a salvage business using his pickup truck,
needed stitches to close wounds to his scalp. The daughter received
contusions to her face.

“I feel OK,” she said. “I’m happy that I’m alive and my dad’s
alive.”

Police believe there “may have been something nefarious” going on in the
home that attracted the home-invaders, said Const. Tim Fanning.

The daughter said she wasn’t aware of any illegal activity in the home
she shares with her father. The home-invaders didn’t take her laptop or
any of the electronic equipment in the house.

“I have no clue why they came,” she said.

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