‘This Is Gang Activity’: Couple Terrorized In Brutal Home Invasion At ‘Crime-Riddled’ Aurora Apartment Complex

Nineteen individuals were detained following a brutal home invasion at the same Aurora, Colorado apartment building that made national headlines over past criminal migrant activity.

A man and a woman were accosted and taken to an empty apartment against their will Monday night by a group of about 13 to 15 armed individuals, according to a press briefing from Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain. While the two victims were restrained, pistol whipped and stabbed, some of the alleged assailants went to the victims’ home at a different apartment building to steal some of their belongings.

The victims were eventually released after promising their captors that they would not call authorities, according to Chamberlain. Afterward, the man and woman drove away and called police.

“We have proactively been focused on that apartment complex,” the police chief said, acknowledging the history of Venezuelan-related criminal activity plaguing the area in recent times. “As everybody here knows, and as the nation knows, this complex is an incredibly problematic complex. It is an incredibly crime-riddled complex that we have been focused on.”

“Unfortunately, when you look at this type of activity, especially when you consider all of the individuals involved in this are most likely Venezuelan, most of them are without question, or most likely, we believe at this point, undocumented or immigrants to the city of Aurora,” Chamberlain continued. “Again, unfortunately, these individuals, like many gangs, and many individuals involved in this type of activity, they victimized their own race and their ethnicity.”

The Aurora Police Department has not released all of the identities of the suspects, but Chamberlain said his department has reached out to Immigration