Police: Burglar walks in on sleeping kids in Fort Mill apartment

Fort Mill police are searching for a burglary suspect who was apparently scared away from an apartment after he walked into a bedroom and found two children.

Officers responded to a burglary at an apartment on Sunland Drive in Fort Mill just after 10 a.m. Friday, said Maj. Bryan Zachary, a Fort Mill Police Department spokesman. The caller, a 13-year-old girl, said she and her sister were sleeping in an upstairs bedroom when they were awakened by someone opening the door to the room.

The girls saw a stranger in the doorway, Zachary said. The man fled the home after realizing they were there. One of the girls looked out of an upstairs window and saw the suspect, described only as a white man wearing a blue baseball cap, get into what appeared to be a Toyota Corolla.

The car was black, had a North Carolina license plate and was parked directly in front of their apartment, Zachary said. The vehicle fled in an unknown direction.

While investigating that burglary, police discovered that an adjacent apartment also had been burglarized, he said. Both units appeared to have been entered by breaking glass panels on the back doors, and the suspect possibly removed items from both homes through the front doors.

No arrests have been made.

This story was originally published June 24, 2016 at 2:45 PM with the headline "Police: Burglar walks in on sleeping kids in Fort Mill apartment."