Macklemore was the target of a scary situation.
Indeed, the “Can’t Hold Us” singer’s Seattle home was broken into during the early hours of June 8, the Seattle Police Department confirmed to NBC News, as part of a home invasion robbery.
While authorities did not reveal whether Macklemore (real name Benjamin Haggerty)—who shares kids Sloane, 10, Colette, 7, and Hugo, 3, with his wife Tricia Davis—was home at the time of the break-in, officials did share that all three children were present along with a woman who came face-to-face with two men armed with bear spray.
E! News has reached out to police as well as Macklemore’s reps for comment but has not heard back.
The woman—who, according to the police report, was identified as the family’s nanny—alleged that two men entered the house through a patio door shortly after midnight. Describing one suspect as the “taller one” and another as the “shorter one,” she went on to recall that the taller one instructed his counterpart to “spray her,” after which he quickly complied with what was later determined to be bear mace.
After being sprayed with the substance, the woman alleged that the taller man yelled, “Where are the jewels, b—h?” while the other “for some unexplainable reason” helped her clean some of the mace off her face before helping her up and into the kitchen.
Following the men’s verbal commands, per the police report, the woman said that she then led them to the second-floor master bedroom, where they took clothing, jewelry and shoes from the closet. But when the taller man decided that her body language seemed a bit too “twitchy,” she alleged that he had his partner throw her to the ground, where he put a boot on her ankle before moving it to the back of her neck and taking her phone.
When she began to scream, the men allegedly got her up off the floor, pinned her against a wall and held her mouth shut until she bit into one of their hands.
Following this sequence of events, the woman was able to break free and run through the bathroom and out of the house. After knocking on multiple neighbors’ doors, someone finally welcomed her inside where she called the police.
According to the police report, the house was later searched and cleared of any suspects, and the three children were safely extracted from the house—where bear spray still lingered in the air.
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