Victims of terrifying home invasion issue brave warning to the public

A terrified young woman was forced to jump from a second-floor balcony and clamber over a paling fence to safety, when two masked men stormed her Baulkham Hills home armed with a rifle and a hammer.

Pictured is the home in Baulkham Hills which was subjected to a home invasion on Friday. Picture: Julian Andrews.

A terrified young woman was forced to jump from a second-floor balcony and clamber over a paling fence to safety, when two masked men stormed her Baulkham Hills home armed with a rifle and a hammer.

The young woman, who is too anxious to stay at the house since the horror ordeal on Friday night, was preparing for bed when an unknown pair kicked in the back door and confronted her, and her partner.

It was the second time in as many days an innocent family in the city’s north west has been mistakenly targeted, after a home was sprayed with bullets at Kellyville on Thursday.

With no warning issued to the public by the NSW Police Media unit, the woman’s boyfriend Teo said he wanted the community to be vigilant.

“You wouldn’t expect something like this in Baulkham Hills...people go running here at 10pm at night, it’s normally really safe and people don’t expect this could happen,” Teo said.

Teo and his girlfriend, who is even too nervous to be named, were getting ready for bed when they heard the glass on their back door shatter, around 11pm.

Seconds later, Teo was confronted by an unknown man standing in the foyer of the Old Northern Rd house.

“It was dark, I couldn’t see a lot but I could see he was holding a rifle across his body, it looked like,” Teo said.

One of the occupants from the house jumped off the first floor balcony to escape the armed intruders. Pics by Julian Andrews.

As Teo planned his escape, his girlfriend who was upstairs, was confronted by a second man who was holding a hammer.

“She was so fearful...she ran out onto the balcony, then jumped two floors...then she climbed over the fence,” Teo said.

Teo locked himself in a bedroom before fleeing through a window. He then ran to a neighbour and begged them to call Triple-0.

“She (his girlfriend) won’t stay here anymore...she’s got a pretty bad cut on her leg from going over the fence to get away,” Teo said.

The couple spent the next day getting security cameras installed at their home.

A spokesman for NSW Police said there were “operational reasons” that the public wasn’t informed about the violent home invasion, but confirmed Teo and his girlfriend were not the intended targets.

Following an innocent family being caught up in a drive-by shooting on Thursday night at North Kellyville, Hills Police Area Command Detective Superintendent Naomi Moore issued a stern warning to anyone who wants to terrorise the community.

“Let me be clear on the fact that violence of this kind in our community is not acceptable,” Det-Supt Moore said.

“People are entitled to live in their homes, not in fear and these people have been targeted wrongfully and their lives have been turned upside-down overnight.”

She said a family was asleep when bullets were sprayed at their Nangar Cres home, sometime around 11pm.

Shortly after the shooting, a car was found alight in Watergum Close at Rouse Hill which police believe is linked. The car was seized for forensic examination.