A burglary was just caught live on a Web stream. Nikki Elise, a popular Dota 2 streamer based in Phoenix, Ariz., realized what was happening at same time as her live audience did.
Elise, known online as Sajedene, was playing the popular competitive game on Twitch when shouting erupted elsewhere in her Phoenix home. A look of shock took her as she ran to see what was happening. Seconds later, a man armed with a pistol can be seen entering her room and removing some items before walking out again.
The intruder returns soon after and carries away Elise’s own firearms. It takes over 12 minutes before Sajedene’s teammates finally read the Twitch chat and realize that a robbery is under way. Shortly thereafter, the burglar comes back, turns off the lights, and disconnects the webcam. The stream ends seconds later, possibly from the computer itself being disconnected.
- Sajedene hears a knock
- Intruder breaks in, Sajedene runs to investigate.
- Suspected intruder steps into cam
- Intruder steps into cam again, seemingly looting.
and carrying Sajedene's firearms
- Sajedene's team-mates read the twitch chat and find out that a robbery is under progress.
- intruder steps into cam once again, shutting down the lights amongst other things.
01:56 - Sajedene hears a knock
03:10 - Intruder breaks in, Sajedene runs to investigate.
03:32 - Suspected intruder steps into cam
07:20 - Intruder steps into cam again, seemingly looting.
and carrying Sajedene's firearms
12:30 - Sajedene's team-mates read the twitch chat and find out that a robbery is under progress.
15:50 - intruder steps into cam once again, shutting down the lights amongst other things.
17:09 - webcam gets disconnected
17:17 stream ends, probably from computer getting disconnected.
Thank you for the kind outpouring of love and support for SUNSfan and me right now. It means the world that we (and both cats) are okay. It was a very scary situation to be in - especially knowing we were not the originally intended target, and how much worse it could have been if it were not for our friends from around the world who acted quickly to get the police involved. A big thank you especially to Ace, Neil, Spawn, CyborgMatt, and anyone else I may have regretfully missed who acted quickly - especially since our own neighbors DID NOT call anyone. We owe you our love and gratitude and life.
To get to the gist of it, I was streaming when we heard a loud noise in the other room and thought it was the cats. SUNSfan went to go check it out and I hear another noise and him yelling. Two men kicked our door in and pointed their guns at us looking for the drugs and guns of some other man who was their original intended target but they got us instead. We only had the latter and offered them everything else we had. They had us face down on the floor and took our belongings (bank cards, phones, jewelry, laptop, etc). They were going to take us to the bank and keep me hostage while SUNSfan took out money and from there god only knows. That was when the cops showed up (again thanks to you). The police have someone in custody, and have all the numbers to track and trace any other accomplices (with my rifle serial numbers probably being the strongest apart from the video feed you took - and not getting into any debates, were all legally purchased in CALIFORNIA not Arizona and honestly I don't even know how long they would have stuck around or if they would keep us alive if they didn't find anything worth taking and knowing we had some money in the bank and wanted to wait for the bank to open).
Sometimes, the risk of having such a public, out there life creates various speculations and theories and opinions, too much and sometimes too painful to address individually, but on the bright side, I don't know where I would be if I wasn't doing what I was doing to have you come to our aid when the people who lived much closer were not able to do the same. I can not thank you all enough.
At this time, we're still in shock and can't really go through each individual messages just yet, but we'll get to them eventually and I promise to read and respond to as much as I can, if not all of it (as I usually try to do). All that matters is that we are okay.
