Calif. police seek gunmen after boy’s 911 call

Published 12:19 pm Wednesday, March 10, 2010

NORWALK, Calif. — Detectives in California are searching for three armed robbers who broke into a home and threatened the parents of a 7-year-old boy who called 911 from a locked bathroom.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sgt. Douglas Jensen said today that investigators are interviewing neighbors and looking for anyone with information about the assailants.

The assailants held the parents at gunpoint Tuesday while the boy and his 6-year-old sister hid in a bathroom in the Norwalk home. The boy, identified only as Carlos, told a dispatcher there was “some guy who’s going to kill my mom and dad” and begged authorities to “bring cops. A lot of them!”

Jensen says the assailants left without stealing anything once they realized the boy had called 911.

Jensen say they are investigating why the family was targeted.