Three teens pointed a gun at an Auckland woman after she found them breaking into her home.
The 60-year-old woman is too afraid to be identified in case of retaliation by the trio, but her daughter spoke to NZME about the frightening incident on Monday.
She said her mother had left her Mangere Bridge home about 2pm when she got a call from her monitored alarm company saying the alarm had gone off.
"She went back home to check on it and there was a guy coming out of her bedroom. She got a fright and he got a fright too and jumped over the bannister and down the stairs.
"She ran outside and locked the door behind her, thinking she had locked them inside, but they broke out a downstairs window, so she chased them down the road."