Burglar broke into house where two boys were home alone, police say
TRENTON - Trenton police are looking for a man who broke into an Abernathy Avenue home while two children were home alone Thursday, authorities said.
File photo of a Trenton Police vehicle (Michael Mancuso | The Times of Trenton) The man, wearing dark clothing and carrying a black backpack, kicked in the door of a house on the first block of Abernathy Avenue around 9:30 a.m. Thursday. Two boys, aged 14 and 11, were home from school and hid in a bathroom when they saw someone kicking in the back door, Captain Donald Fillinger said.
One of the boys poked his head out of the bathroom as the suspect walked up the stairs, causing the suspect to run out the back door of the house, Fillinger said.
The boys, brothers, were unharmed, Fillinger said.
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