The woman, who chose not to be identified, was alone with her children at their Grantham Park home at around 8am when she saw movement on the monitor of her CCTV system.
To her shock and horror, four men had scaled a neighbouring wall and were busy, masked and gloved, attempting to obscure the camera views so their movements would not be captured.
Panic stricken, she called her husband who had left for work earlier in the morning.
He immediately contacted Nite Owl Security with whom he is contracted and together with a colleague, rushed to his wife’s aid. Little did he know that he would come face to face with a loaded gun.
The same CCTV cameras the robbers attempted to disable managed to capture the horrifying moment the suspect pointed the gun at him as he rounded the side of his home.
The robbers scarpered, jumping over a wall and disappearing into the greenbelts.
‘We immediately mobilised when we received his call,’ said Mark Joseph, owner of Nite Owl.
‘I managed to set up a cordon area relatively quickly and liaised with Empangeni SAPS who also responded extremely fast.
Twenty minutes after the ordeal began, one of the suspects was in custody.
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