Victim Speaks After Armed Home Invasion, Robbery & Sexual Assault
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- One of the victims in a violent home invasion and sexual assault in northeast Miami-Dade is telling her story in hopes someone in the community knows who attacked her and her siblings.
The victims and their mother say the community should be deeply concerned that this violent home invasion attacker remains on our streets and they want him caught.
"It was wrong what he did," said one of the female victims, who asked that we not reveal her identity. "He has really hurt this family."
Miami-Dade police say the man was spotted on surveillance video outside the victim's apartment.
Investigators say he forced the woman, her sister and brother into their apartment at dawn last Saturday and over the course of an hour sexually assaulted the two women and stole cash and jewelry.
"If he needed anything all he had to say was, 'I'm homeless or I need this.' You don't go and randomly invading people like that," she said.
Police say the man wore a black hoodie with the number "3" on the back along with the words "UNITED STATES" and an American flag underneath.
Investigators say he has a thin build, gold teeth, the distinctive hoodie and white and gold sneakers.
This victim says she was returning from her prom and her siblings were with her when this guy jumped them.
"He put me at gunpoint with the gun to my head and said, told me and my sister to go in the house and said, 'Don't say anything,'" she said.
What followed was an ordeal that left the three siblings shaken and scarred. Their mother described the impact on her kids.
"I don't wish that on nobody child," she said. "What happened to my kids, right now they're suffering with that and they're not coping with it very well."
She's hoping to get them counseling and to get them out of this apartment complex. But most of all she wants this bad guy caught and locked up before he hurts someone else.
"I hope whoever see him, know him, turn him in because they deserve that for him to get caught," the mother said.
Police ask that if you know who the attacker is, contact Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at (305) 471-TIPS.
