Family shaken after intruders ransack Southern California home

A Chatsworth family is reeling after burglars ransacked their home while they were visiting a relative in the hospital earlier this week, getting away cash, jewelry and lifetime’s worth of sentimental keepsakes.  

The unsettling April 21^st ordeal unfolded at around 7:40 p.m. in the 22000 block of Kinzie Street, officials with the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to KTLA.  

Home surveillance cameras captured three suspects wearing hoodies and gloves exiting a dark-colored, possibly gray, Nissan Rogue parked at the curb, with a fourth suspect remaining behind the wheel of the vehicle.  

The intruders move to the back of the home through a side gate, where the homeowners, who did not want to be identified, said they shattered a sliding glass door to gain access to the home.  

Once inside the residence, the burglary crew ransacked each of the bedrooms, stealing whatever cash and jewelry they could find. After approximately 13 minutes, cameras captured the three suspects leaving, one carrying a backpack, another with what appeared to be a briefcase and the third with a sack filled with the family’s property.  

After the video was shared with community members, the homeowners were told that the crew was speaking Armenian over a walkie-talkie while exiting home, though police have not confirmed that detail with KTLA.  

The intruders left the way they got in and fled the area in the Nissan Rogue.  

While it’s unclear just how much the suspects got away with, the shaken homeowners only sharing that they were “heartbroken, as the thieves took everything my parents had worked their entire lives for.”  

Anyone who might recognize the intruders is asked to call the Los Angeles Police Department. Those wishing to remain anonymous can call the L.A. Regional Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-222-8477.

KTLA’s Elizabeth Chapman contributed to this story.

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