Crime & Safety

Woman and Teen Held at Gunpoint in Home Invasion

A woman and a 16-year-old girl were held at gunpoint during a home invasion that occurred early Monday, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.

The woman and the girl were alone in their separate bedrooms inside a home at the 1500 block of 14th Street Court East, Bradenton, when four armed unknown black males, all wearing dark clothes, entered the residence, the report shows. 

The men went into the teen's bedroom and told her to be quiet, the report said, they then took her into the woman's bedroom where she was sleeping. The men woke the woman, threw a blanket over the victims' heads and ransacked both bedrooms the report shows.

It is unknown whether they took anything in the residence or how they got inside the home. The suspects fled the scene before deputies arrived. No one was injured during the incident. 


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