HALLANDALE BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - An armed man caught on camera breaking into a Hallandale Beach home and stealing from a child’s room is now in custody, according to police.
The Hallandale Beach Police Department say they’ve made an arrest in connection to an armed home invasion that happened near the 1000 block of Southwest Third Avenue on Sunday.
According to police, the suspect, who has been identified as Rashad Corouthers, managed to gain access to the home through a broken window that was being covered with plywood at the time.
Surveillance video from inside the home appears to show Corouthers rummaging through items inside a child’s bedroom, stuffing several things inside of a grocery store bag.
As Corouthers kept ransacking the home, the two children who lived at the home returned to find the intruder inside.
Investigators say Corouthers brandished a firearm at the children, aged 10 and 12, and ordering them to leave before running out of the home in another direction.
“The defendant asked if they lived there, presented a semi automatic black hand gun, loaded the firearm by ‘racking’ the slide of the gun, and then pointed it at Victim 1 and 2 and yelled several times, ‘Get out of here,'” the arrest report states.
The young children ran to their parents, who were outside in the driveway.
Doorbell camera captured the children running away from the home. Seconds later, Corouthers is seen leaving with a bag.
“I heard screaming from their door and I saw somebody running out,” said a neighbor who heard the commotion.
Authorities say they tracked Corouthers down by utilizing GPS monitoring data, which placed him at the home around the time of the alleged incident.
“Through technology, assistance with technology, the Real Time Crime Center, Broward Sheriff’s Office, the pre-trial release, we were able to track his GPS and put him at that location on that night and made an arrest yesterday,” said Hallandale Beach Police spokesperson Grace Mariot.
Officials say the incident left the entire family shaken.
“They’re traumatized. This is not something that they were expecting to go through. The children, particularly, are traumatized because they had a weapon in their face,” said Mariot.
A neighbor in the area told 7News he couldn’t believe somebody would point a gun at two young children.
“They didn’t deserve that; they’re just kids,” he said. “It shouldn’t be happening anywhere in Hallandale.”
Court records show Corouthers was previously convicted of a felony.
He now faces a slew of charges, including armed home invasion, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
7News reached out to the family from that home but they did not wish to speak.
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