NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — A New Smyrna Beach family says they were terrified when a stranger threatened to shoot them while repeatedly trying to enter their home.
Portions of the encounter were captured on Ring camera video.
Aidan Lewis was inside the home with his mother and cousin when police said 63-year-old Kevin Moss of St. Augustine approached the house shortly before 11:30 p.m. Monday.
“He kept trying to come in, banging on the door, saying he was going to shoot me, kill me,” Lewis said. “He did hand gestures with his hands and went, ‘Boom, boom, boom.’”
New Smyrna Beach police responded after receiving a report of a burglary in progress. Dispatchers told officers that a shirtless man had been seen trying to enter the home and threatening the people inside.
A woman told police she was sitting in her living room when she heard someone trying to open the front door. She called for her son, who looked through a nearby window.
Police said Moss made a finger-gun gesture toward him, said “boom, boom, boom” and threatened to shoot the people inside.
Ring camera video obtained by Channel 9 shows a man police identified as Moss pulling on the front door handle and yelling threats through the door.
Investigators said Moss then entered the backyard through the family’s fence and began trying other entrances.
“He started banging on all the windows and the back door, trying to open those, and the same with the sliding glass door,” Lewis said. “He punched the back window super hard, where a picture fell off the windowsill and started tumbling.”
The family remained on the phone with 911 throughout the encounter.
An Edgewater police officer detained Moss a short distance from the home. One of the occupants later identified him as the man seen at the residence, police said.
The family told investigators they did not see a weapon.
Moss was taken to a hospital for medical clearance before being booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail on a charge of attempted burglary of an occupied dwelling.
Court records show he has since bonded out of jail.
Police have not said why Moss allegedly targeted the home or whether he was under the influence of any substance.
“Crazy people are out there, so people have to keep their doors locked no matter what time,” Lewis said. “It could be 9 in the morning. You never know.”
No one inside the home was physically injured.
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