those four fatal shootings in five days. now this violent home invasion. what s supposed to be a safe neighborhood. and what s so frightening about this is that it allegedly happened while the victim s husband and young children were asleep. i went to fetch my newspaper at 6:45 a.m. reporter: lucille bellucci woke to police outside her door in the typically secluded oakland hills, telling her about a violent attack on her street. that there had been a break-in, that the man had a gun, and he d committed a sexual offense on the woman. which which is a nightmare that should never happen to anyone. i woke up to an e-mail this morning saying that there had been a home invasion, the police were there all night, and let people know. reporter: bruce lindy, head of the neighborhood watch group, got an e-mail in the middle of the night from the victim s husband, saying his wife had been held at gunpoint, robbed, then sexually assaulted inside their home on wilton avenue. h
quickly circulated throughout the typically secluded neighborhood. there s a lot of people in this whole area coming from elsewhere, from down the hill. reporter: the victim s home on wilton avenue sits right on a well-traveled trail. lindy says that may have given the suspect easy access. you can see, they have a nice backyard and a lawn, and you can see into the house, so the good part is it s open to the trail and the bad part is it s open to the trail. reporter: meanwhile people here are trying to make sense of it and stick together. in time of emergency we ve come to believe the main thing we have to fall back on is each other. reporter: and the 38-year-old mother of two was treated at a local hospital. we re told she is in okay condition. we ve also just gotten word that a suspect may be in custody. we ll tell you more about that, i ll send it back to the studio with those breaking details. let s take you over to our chopper right now over the mcarthur b.a