A Brisbane man has told of the horrifying moment gun-wielding intruders burst into his Chermside home while his family was inside.
The man, who doesn’t want to be identified, came face-to-face with the three men before his stepson was forced to step in.
He told 9News his stepson grabbed a hammer from the hands of one of the home invaders.
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“Yeah he’s grabbed the hammer of one of the s— —- and stuck it in his back,” the man told 9News.
“That’s when there was screaming and chaos. They all ran.
“They got dinged up a bit and off they ran, scurried out.”
Asked if the intruders had picked the wrong house, he agreed.
Police arrested the three men on a nearby street.
One of the intruders was taken to hospital with lacerations to his back.