parenting choice

police are still looking for him and putting kids into a trance, a parenting choice that is raising eyebrows. i am maurice dubois. will have more on those stories in just a moment but first, developing news. the search for a masked gunman

who terrorized a long island family. tony aiello with the latest from valley stream tonight. truck the victims say they moved here from another part of nassau county about six years ago, thinking valley stream would be a safer community and

it was until an on this knock on their door around dinnertime monday night. newly installed motion sensor lights, just one of the security cautions aimed at reassuring jittery residents of this home. i feel much better but it's

very scary. i couldn't go to school yesterday or today because i couldn't sleep. reporter: this 12-year-old was home when a man wearing a ski mask knocked at the door and pushed his way inside. a second masked man was right

behind him. they had guns. i was really scared. reporter: the men seemed to think there's a lot of money in the basement but there wasn't. the robbers also said something that may indicate they targeted the wrong house.

they were looking for a man named ricky. we don't know who that is. reporter: six family members including a three-month-old infant were forced into a bathroom while the man ransacked the home. you just stole jewelry and i

was going to call 911 on siri but they took the phones. reporter: after about 10 minutes, the men fled. there were no physical injuries but there is still pain associated with the lingering fear. it's very, very scary. everybody is scared.

reporter: and understandably so.

like many homes, this one has a surveillance camera positioned near the front door. it got video of the masked