An attempted break-in to a Metro Vancouver business was caught on camera this weekend, leaving the owner with a terrifying sense of déjà vu.
Taryn Stephenson, who co-owns T’s Once Upon A Tea Leaf in Maple Ridge, was awoken by an alarm at 4 a.m. Sunday warning her of an incident at the shop.
Her security cameras captured what unfolded in video she shared with CTV News.
“A man arrived to our store dressed in black with something sharp – a hammer or a crowbar – in his hand. He tried to smash her front door, was not successful, to smash our front window, not successful,” she said.
“He was pretty determined to get in. He was punching it and kicking the window to try and get through and he had a can of something in his hand.”
For Stephenson, the video evoked the distressing memory of what happened almost …