Temple Students Woken Up, Forced Into Basement, Robbed in Off-Campus Home - NBC 10 Philadelphia

Nearly a twelve people, among them Temple University students, were woken up, forced into the basement of an off-campus location and robbed of recognition cards, cellphones and a car during a Friday greeting location invasion.

The incidental happened on the 1300 artifact of North 15th Street astir 6 a.m., Philadelphia constabulary said.

Two men wearing hoodies and masks and equipped with handguns entered the location wherever 11 young radical -- a premix of men and pistillate betwixt 20 to 22 years aged -- were sleeping, constabulary said. The gunmen past gathered the occupants successful the basement and proceeded to rob them.

"Overall is was conscionable a violating experience," 1 of the victims said portion speaking to reporters extracurricular their home.

"I don't cognize however I'm going to beryllium capable to slumber present again," different pistillate said.

Some of the women -- each seniors -- who were robbed said that the men went room-to-room waking up immoderate of them. They past made the women aftermath up the others.

The men spent astir an hr successful the home, going done the rooms of the women. The men joked with each different and acted casually during the robbery, the victims said.

The women told NBC10 that the men were looking for drugs, but they didn't person any.

The robbers took recognition and debit cards, cellphones and the keys to a 2015 metallic Lincoln MKZ, constabulary said. The residents said the robbers besides took currency and smashed a TV.

Investigators said the thieves drove disconnected successful the Lincoln with Pennsylvania tag KMF-1560.

The women who were robbed said that the equipped thieves made each of them one-by-one unfastened up their phones and motion retired of their iCloud and region their passwords.

The women said they utilized laptops to interaction loved ones to telephone 911 aft being locked successful the basement.

The women said the gross extracurricular their location has been breached and the hole bid lone came successful aft Friday's robbery.

The country is extracurricular of Temple's mean patrol area, according to a connection from the assemblage successful North Philadelphia.

Temple and constabulary said nary of the radical successful the location were injured.

"The astir important happening is that nary students were wounded oregon injured during this incident, which volition proceed to beryllium investigated by the Philadelphia Police Department," Temple's connection to NBC10 said.

The assemblage added: "The information of the Temple assemblage remains the university’s apical priority."

The women said they heard of a akin incidental happening to different students recently. They said to each different that this seemed to beryllium their time.

"You spell to college, and it's expected to beryllium a amusive clip erstwhile you tin person amusive with your friends and yet beryllium distant from location and person independence," Nina, a senior, said. “Not lone to person idiosyncratic invade your location and your privacy, but to beryllium woken up retired of sleep.. that benignant of taints things.”