HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. – The Macomb County Sheriff's Office said a 13-year-old girl hid under a bed and called 911 Thursday afternoon when two men broke into her home.
In the 911 call, Chloe Symington tells the operator she saw a dark-colored van pull up to her home on Hamon Street in Harrison Township and then heard someone knock on her door. She tells the operator she thought the men got into the house through a garage door. She continues the conversation from under the bed, giving the operator descriptions of the men – they had black gloves, a black jacket and were tall.
"He started coming up the stairs. So I said, 'One second, he's coming up the stairs.' I put the phone down," Symington said. "I pushed myself off the wall under my bed. I was under there for at least 10 minutes while they were walking around."
She was on the phone for 15 minutes until police arrived.
"If I had panicked then they would have saw me, and I don't really want to think about what they would have done," Symington said.
LISTEN: Teen's 911 call
In a release about the incident, Sheriff Anthony Wickersham said deputies responded to the girl's call and saw two men walking away from the home. Wickersham said both men fled, but one was tracked by a K-9 and the other surrendered himself.
The suspects are Daniel Paul Laflin and Michael Thomas Zdanukiewicz. Both are 19 years old and Clinton Township residents. They are facing charges of first-degree home invasion, conspiracy to commit home invasion, weapon and firearms larceny, assaulting, resisting and obstructing a police officer.