Gunmen attack granny
Invade & rob home
An 80-year-old Brooklyn grandma is grateful to be alive after three crooks wearing masks and gloves robbed her at gunpoint, forcing her down on the kitchen floor as they ransacked her apartment.
“I said, ‘Oh thank God they left, they left me alive.’ They could have done something bad to me,” a still-distraught Maria Lugo Sr. told The Post on Saturday.
“I was thinking they could start shooting.”
Lugo said she was opening the door to her apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Sumner Houses around 6:45 p.m. on Thursday when the three masked thieves ambushed her.
“They said, ‘Get on the floor! Don’t move! Don’t move! Just lay down and don’t talk!’ ” she recalled. “So I just stay quiet.”
One of the robbers ordered the elderly woman to lie face down on the kitchen floor, and watched the front door as she lay there, terrified.
“I saw when he put me on the floor he had the gun in hand,” said Lugo, who had just come home from walking her 11-year-old pug, Sammy.
“My heart was shaking like . . . oh my God.”
The other two rifled through her place for cash and valuables.
“They ran through here like horses, and said, ‘Where’s the money? Where’s the money? Where’s the money?’ ” Lugo said.
“The two were looking all around and asking the other guy, ‘Where’s the money? I don’t see no money.’ ”
Lugo lives with her daughter and grandson, who had just left to run errands before the robbery.
She was all alone, except for her beloved pug, and kept quiet and prayed throughout the ordeal, fearing they would kill her if she spoke up.
“If I get aggressive with them and talk to them bad, they gonna kill me right there — who knows?
“I said, ‘ God, take care of this. I leave in your hands!’ ”
The thieves made off with a 40-inch TV that her daughter, Maria Lugo Jr., 52, had bought only the day before, for $300.
“My son was going to set up the TV,” the daughter said. “It was still in the package.”
The robbers also grabbed an Xbox console, $311 and several perfumes worth nearly $600 before taking off, police and the younger Lugo said.
“Right away when I see the last one [leave], I stood up and closed the door fast,” Maria Lugo Sr. said, adding that she then searched for her dog and called her daughter.
Authorities are still looking for the three attackers, police said.