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“And finally tonight, a bodega was robbed in Brooklyn this week. The burglars shattered the store's front door, emptied the cash register and set fire to the ATM. When asked why –”

“There’s an innocent bodega owner. There’s a burglar.”

Mr Hare said he felt both emotional and grateful no-one was harmed, calling the burglars the "most dangerous people who'd ever visited Blenheim Palace".

After a failed PIT maneuver to immobilize the car in the parking lot, the burglars fled, purposely hitting a police vehicle to get away, police said.

Initially, when police responded to the bloody scene, investigators considered the killing to be the work of so-called knock-knock burglars who plagued parts of San Fernando Valley.