A daunting theft of a suburban couple at gunpoint this week was captured on Ring doorbell footage, with the victims now talking out on the harrowing expertise.
The footage exhibits the couple approaching the entrance door of their Glenview residence when a bunch of males immediately method from behind with weapons drawn.
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A person and girl in suburban Glenview returning residence from a night out had been robbed at gunpoint, police stated, with Ring Doorbell footage catching the horrifying moments on digital camera.
“Take it. Take it. Take all the things,” the person might be heard telling the gunmen because the couple palms over jackets, a handbag, wallets and extra.
Gregory Poulos stated the incident unfolded as he and his spouse returned residence from dinner in Chicago.
“We had an attractive dinner downtown and, you realize, left the dinner and got here residence and really uneventful on the best way residence,” Poulos instructed NBC Chicago. “Simply pulled into the driveway and after we pulled into the driveway, we simply obtained out and began strolling in direction of our entrance door as we do, you realize, a thousand occasions earlier than.”
“And a automobile pulled up on the opposite aspect of the road,” he continued. “At first we thought it may very well be one in all our mates, you realize, our son’s mates, however as quickly as we noticed the doorways open and three males dashing at us, weapons drawn, we knew one thing was very, very, you realize, completely different this time. They usually instantly had been saying issues like, ‘Give us all the things you will have.'”
“[One gunman] was like, ‘Throw, give me all the things.’ So I simply began throwing stuff at him, no matter I had, together with sneakers,” Angie Beltsos Poulos stated.
In a second not captured on the Ring digital camera, Poulos stated the couple had been pressured onto the bottom.
“At that second, you realize, you do not know what’s subsequent, however a minimum of, you realize – as a result of we had been mendacity down, the movement stopped so the video is not displaying – however a minimum of we knew they had been leaving,” he stated.
Poulos credited his coaching as a nuclear reactor operator on a submarine with serving to him keep a peaceful demeanor all through the encounter.
“We complied. That is, I will say, how I used to be skilled is give them what they need, you realize, attempt to, you realize, maintain the scenario from escalating and provides them what they need and hopefully they go away — and there actually was no different different, frankly,” Poulos stated.
“Residing on a submarine, you learn to take care of stress and emergency conditions, so that you keep calm. And that is what I do. Inside I used to be completely not calm and I used to be not … I used to be, in fact, terrified inside, however, you realize, on the surface, you need to show whereas they’re in cost, in fact, having a gun of their hand, you need to additionally kind of attempt to take over the scenario. And I simply continued to say, ‘You are getting what you need. I am providing you with all… you are getting all of the stuff you need.’ That means, a minimum of of their thoughts, they felt like they had been getting precisely what they needed and and never escalating the scenario.”
The incident occurred simply after 10 p.m. Monday within the 1700 block of Bluestem Lane in Glenview subdivision The Glen. Based on police, the person and girl had been approached by three male suspects who displayed handguns and demanded their private property.
The victims complied, and the three suspects then fled in a Jaguar SUV, police stated.
Neither of the victims had been injured through the encounter, police stated. The Jaguar was later situated, unoccupied, miles away, within the 4300 block of Federal Road in Chicago.
Based on police, the victims described the suspects as males, carrying black face coverings and darkish clothes.
The couple stated they misplaced a number of objects within the theft, together with a hoop gifted to Poulos by his grandfather. They stated they hope their story raises consciousness for others to pay attention to your environment.
“This is not acceptable wherever. It is not good within the South Facet, the North Facet, the North Shore. We’re blessed that we dwell in a really good neighborhood, and but, you do not anticipate somebody to convey weapons to your face whilst you’re strolling into your private home,” Beltsos Poulos stated. “And it is prefer it simply feels further sort of like violating. That is your yard. You are not in a avenue or in an out of doors place. You are proper in your entrance yard. Actually.”
Police requested anybody with details about the incident are being requested to contact the Glenview Police Tip Line at (847) 901-6055.
