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The young mother and father were too traumatised to be identified but spoke to 9News about what allegedly happened last night.
“I thought this front door was locked that we have but it wasn’t because it doesn’t lock properly,” the father said.
“Someone basically said, ‘Oi’, and the next thing a man walked in with what appeared to be a rifle.”
The couple yelled out that they had a baby inside and the man eventually left about 10.10pm.
They called police and boarded up their unit but the man allegedly returned about 1.05am today.
“He’s, yeah, forced his way in, kicked the glass door, entered the house, and just kept asking for the person that used to live here, money, drugs,” the father alleged.
The mother was in another room with their child and said all she could hear was her partner screaming “There’s a baby in here, there’s a baby in here”.
“I feared for my life. I feared for my partner’s life,” she said.
“I’m just in there thinking, ‘Is my partner about to get shot to death, and I’m just gonna walk out to a dead body? Like, am I about to be a single mum, or am I about to have my baby orphaned?'”
Police allege the would-be robber fled but only made it 100 metres up the road before collapsing in a neighbouring driveway.
Officers allegedly found a gel blaster nearby and towed a Toyota Kluger from the scene.
The young couple are preparing to move back out.
“We’re just in our early 20s, like, first home, like living out of family, you know,” the mother said. “And I can’t have my baby around this.”
A 29-year-old Hillcrest man was charged with two counts each of attempted armed robbery and enter with intent and was expected to face Beenleigh Magistrates Court today.
