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The comments [following the story] are the best. John Derbyshire will like the one I bolded.Family tied up and terrorized inside home by man posing as postal worker
By Jennifer Bauer, jbauer@kprc.com
Nov 29, 2013 10:01:05 P.M. CST; updated on: Nov 29, 2013 10:41:27 P.M. CST
KPRC
• Family tied up and terrorized inside home by man posing as postal worker
KINGWOOD, Texas -
A mother and her four children were terrorized inside their home for thirty minutes as robbers went room to room looking for jewelry and cash.
It happened Friday around 11 a.m. in the 21000 block of Whispering Forest Drive in the Kings Manor subdivision in Kingwood.
The victims said there were four armed robbers, one of them posed as a postal worker and forced his way in. Three other suspects followed.
"The guy said there was a mail delivery," said Syed Shah, the victim's husband, who was at work when the crime occurred.
"She just opened the door and he slammed it on her. They punched her, dragged her to the kitchen area and tied up both her hands and both her legs and asked her to put her face down on the floor."
His wife, Sajida, said the suspect who rang her doorbell had on a blue shirt and name tag with a U.S. mail logo on it.
The suspect tied her and her 13-year-old son up. The couple's 11-year-old daughter and two other children, ages 4 and 2, were not harmed.
Once the robbers left the 11-year-old called her dad then dialed 911.
"I was targeted, yes," said Shah. He believes the suspects handpicked his family because he owns a gas station nearby and knew he wouldn't be home.
His wife said two days earlier the same man came to their door and tried to deliver a different package but she told him it was the wrong address. The family believes the men may have been casing the place.
"These guys been doing this," said Shah, who hopes police catch the crooks soon. "There were four guys, they were armed. All of them had guns."
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit and Crime Scene Investigators were called to the scene and are now investigating.
They're working with Crime Stoppers and ask anyone with information to call 800-392-STOP (7867). Anonymous tips can also be made through the Montgomery County Crime Stopper.
All of them had guns. I guess the big question here that everyone is afraid to ask is. Were they all holding their guns sideways......
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houstonian07 to draftee
• a day ago
No doubt about it. Very little doubt these were Nigerians, or Messicans. Both ?
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sparkyintexas to houstonian07
I hear the Jehovahs Witnesses are terrorizing that part of town lately...!
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houstonian07 to sparkyintexas
• 20 hours ago
Hey the Jehovas were ringing our doorbell 6 times a month.
Finally asked them where their church was. Was given a brochure with their address. Then I asked them to stop coming, or I will exercise some of my civil rites.
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These Jehovas need to preach and harass these thugs sides of town. Not our sides. Most of these witnesses be black.
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whyrepublicans to sparkyintexas
• 21 hours ago
The Amish mafia has finally gotten here on their carts.
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houstonian07 whyrepublicans
• 20 hours ago
So that is the cause of all that Horse manure on the streets.
It's not the fact that it is or it isn't a postal worker, it's that in a postal worker's uniform or attire made to look like one, most will open the door and not think anything of it. And that's scary.
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Sis2 to 6NraUEprqy
• 21 hours ago
Very true....and it could actually have been a postal worker....counting on that.
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houstonian07 Sis2
• 20 hours ago
0f course most postal workers are black. Probably many of them have records. .Would not be surprised to know there are many unserved warrants on them too.
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