Officers forced the door open about 8 30 p.m. and reported finding Kiah unresponsive in her bedroom.
Finally, after about 40 minutes, rescuers were able to force the door open, and the passengers staggered out.
Two of those officers, Detective Hassan Hamdy and Detective Frank Shomaker, forced the door open using a hydraulic drill that they wedged between the door and the door jam.
That way, when the burglar tries to force the door open, he will trip the alarm but still be stuck outside.
He would not say anything else, and when the guard forced the door open a few minutes later he was gone.
Then, in one quick motion, he forced the door open, pulled out a pocketknife, pushed Murray into the passenger seat, and held her in a headlock.
"Then the firefighters knocked on my door, and I didn't hear them, so they forced the door open because they thought I was unconscious".
Firefighters arrived moments later and forced the door open, and two of the older women emerged, Gabrielle said, but not Hana, she said.
The bespectacled writer, a slight, balding figure with long hair and a goatee, managed to force the door open only to be confronted by a terrifying torrent.
