A family has told of their terrifying ordeal after four masked men, armed with a gun and steel pipe, broke into their Doncaster home.
They’d only been living there for three weeks when the incident took place on Wednesday morning, with the family now wanting to move out of their Melbourne home.
Hazon, 21, whose last name has been withheld, woke up after hearing the men break in and was met with a nasty surprise.
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“They pointed a shotgun at me and pointed a knife and then they swung a steel pipe into my hand,” he told 9News.
After using the ”big steel pole”, the armed and masked men “just smashed into the glass” beside the front door to make their way in, grabbing two knives from the kitchen before walking upstairs.
Harzon woke up and opened his bedroom door.
“It was my first time to see a gun. That’s why I felt so scared,” he said.
“I was afraid that they would shoot us.”
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The group locked the 21-year-old, his friend, and his parents in a room while they ransacked their home.
“(One of the men) was searching for drugs, and searching for a person named Nisa but we don’t know who she is.”
About 15 minutes later, they fled the home, taking a wallet, iPad, Nintendo Switch and a handbag.
Harzon and his parents have only called this property home for the past three weeks – now they’re so traumatised, they’re planning to move out.
“I feel so scared that they will come back here again,” he said.
“Now we think Australia is not a safe place anymore.”
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