Houston teen's late-night food order ends with armed robbers taking $180K worth of goods

Just after 1 a.m. last Thursday, Ring doorbell footage captures an Uber Eats driver dropping off food at the front doorstep of a Tanglewood-neighborhood home. The driver is seen documenting the delivery and then driving off.

The teen's dad, Dr. Ruchdi Barakats, says his son was careful and waited for the driver to leave before he opened the front door. According to the surveillance timestamp, the teen waits nearly two minutes before picking up the food. But seconds after opening the door, two gunmen wearing hoodies, masks, and gloves shoved their way into the house."One of them hit him with the back of a gun, with the handle of a handgun, and subdued him to the ground," Barakats says. "They asked him if he's the only one at the house,"His dad, Dr.

The teen complied with the armed robbers' demands, and minutes later, the men are seen leaving the house with large bags of stolen valuables. Dr. Barakats says they went through his master bedroom, his walk-in closet, and even took his wife's safe and some of her handbags.And if that wasn’t enough, they took the homeowner's keys from the kitchen and used his truck as their getaway car.Using the Apple AirTag, law enforcement was able to track down his truck near 288 and Almeda. They found it burned to a crisp.In total, Dr. Barakats estimates the thieves got away with more than $180,000 worth of belongings.

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