HOUSTON - A Houston mother says she woke up to a stranger inside her kitchen early Sunday at the Woodscape Apartments along South Gessner Road.

Man allegedly breaks into Houston mother's apartment

What we know:

The man allegedly broke in through the back door, disabled her security cameras, and loaded a shopping cart with food taken from the family’s refrigerator. She said she and her teenage daughters were asleep until she heard a noise and confronted the man.

The family shared surveillance videos from inside the apartment. FOX 26 blurred the suspect’s face because he had not been charged.

"I saw him standing there with a shopping cart full of things," the mother, Maria Griselda Amaya de Diaz, told FOX 26. "He took everything from the fridge, even a speaker and Roku. When I asked h

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