Two men kicked in the rear basement door of a house in northwest Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon, tied up a woman and ransacked the home, according to Atlanta police.
The incident occurred shortly before 2 p.m. on Dupont Commons Circle. The victim told police two men wearing red bandannas kicked in the rear basement door and came upstairs.
She said the men used duct tape to tie her hands behind her back, then ransacked the house and fled with electronics. The woman was not physically injured. Police told Channel 2 Action News the victim was the nanny to twin toddlers who were at the home at the time of the incident. She was feeding the children at the time the suspects came into the home, the children's grandmother told Channel 2.
"All of a sudden two guys walked around the corner and said shut ... up, and that's when she first saw them," Betty King said. She described how the burglars tied the nanny to a chair with duct tape and left the twins in their high chairs as they ransacked the house.
"And they kept demanding, 'Where's the money, where's the money?' Who keeps money in the house anymore?"
King said the nanny, a former police officer, kept her cool.
"She did everything right, everything," she said. "We're so grateful to have her because she knew what she was doing. She stayed calm through the whole ordeal with the gun and with her duct-taped and gagged."
The suspects eventually left with some electronics, according to police. King said the incident has left the family on edge.
"The boys are stressed out, somebody has to be with them or holding them constantly. If you put them on the floor, they're usually on the floor crawling around everywhere. Now they're not, they're clawing at your legs or somewhere for you to pick them up," King told Channel 2.
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