A Los Angeles mother — on the road and speaking on the phone with her mother, who suddenly started screaming in fear — raced home and rammed a car being used by burglars, video of dramatic confrontation showed.
The woman had just gone out to grab coffee at about 11:30 a.m. Saturday and was on the phone with her mother when two masked burglars appeared outside the back sliding door of their house in Sherman Oaks, the family said.
“My mom is screaming. My kids are in the house,” the woman told NBC News on Monday. “She’s screaming like crazy.”
The woman, fearing for the safety of her mother and three young children, raced home in her G-Wagon and slammed into a sedan parked outside — not knowing, at that moment, that she had actually crashed into the getaway car.
“I see the guys, and I was in panic. I was in shock, you know, and I, like, hit their car unintentionally,” the woman said. “In my mind, I thought they killed my family.”
Neighborhood security cameras showed two men running away from the scene as soon as the woman came crashing home.
Then, moments later, a third man, believed to be the getaway driver, emerged from the right side of the car that the panicked woman had just struck, video showed.
The third man had to go through the passenger side because the collision jammed and sealed the driver’s side entrance.
Police investigators found handheld radios inside the car that might have been used to monitor police activity.
The woman bluntly told the three men to never come back.
“Next time I’m going to kill them,” she said. “Don’t come back. Don’t come back to my house.”
The LAPD declined comment Tuesday, citing its ongoing investigation.
