An 11-year-old girl from San Francisco who was forced into a bathroom during a home invasion wrote “help robbers!!!” while attending her Zoom class last Friday.
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The girl was staying at her cousin’s house in Portola when the two men forced their way into the home and stole several belongings which included money and camera equipment. Afraid that she was going to be killed, the girl wrote the message on the bathroom wall while attended her remote learning session to alert her teacher. Earlier that day, her older cousin told police that his car was broken into and the tires were slashed while he went to a local cemetery to clean off the graves of his relatives. The family also said they noticed the garage door remote was also stolen.
According to the Daily Mail, the man’s daughter-in-law reported the home invasion as a hate crime due to the high number of attacks towards Asian Americans in the country.
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‘My family and the neighbors are all devastated with the tremendous loss, but thankful that no one got hurt,’ the woman wrote on their GoFundMe page. However, it is unclear if the home invasion was racially motivated as the investigation is ongoing by Colma police.