It was a parent’s worst nightmare early Friday morning at a Richmond daycare, when an intruder broke into the centre.
Parents who dropped off their children noticed a flurry of police cars outside of Royal Academy near Knight Street and Cambie Road.
Carolina Cunha’s husband was dropping off their three-year-old when he saw the officers.
“It was the most terrifying moment of my life,” she said about getting the call from her husband.
She says the man was holding what appeared to be a crowbar. When he couldn’t get through the front door, he went to the back and managed to get inside.
As that was happening, parents called Richmond RCMP. But Cunha says officers took to long to respond, claiming it was 20 minutes until they arrived.
“I cannot understand how police can take that long to be in the spot,” she said. “When there were 20 kids that …